Anneli Rufus

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, do ...

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob ...

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only ext ...

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Ov ...

They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does - when you can't get enough of it.

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ...

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

The whole world is a personality cult.

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting ...

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. ...

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

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We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not las ...