“It was towards the end of our time at the house that I recognised that my experience of loneliness is relieved when I am alone; there is symmetry in it. I thought countless times in the intervening years that it must be nice to finally stop trying to belong, to walk away from it all, from them all. I thought that, rather than missing out, there must be something to gain from leaving so much behind. When someone takes things from us that we don’t really need to survive, if we look at it another way, they are relieving us of a burden.”

— Hermit by Jade Angeles Fitton (Page 38)