being secretive

isolation

Narrator

hope

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

Emily Grierson

personal

independent

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Miranda Carroll

sorrow

unreliable

drifting apart

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

Rune

“From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting.”

″‘You don’t have to understand it,’ she said. ‘It’s mine.’”

“But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.”

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