{"quotes":[{"text":"The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["disclosure","life","personality","recluse","revelation","self"],"id":9488,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that’s not a good thing!","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["bad","fantasy","fantasy-world","good","imagination","mental-illness","psychology","recluse","world"],"id":69714,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"...Very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["alone","come-to-the-fair","isolation","loneliness","lonely","misery","outcast","recluse","solitary","solitude"],"id":79890,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["fear","fearful","hiding","imprisonment","incarcerate","incarceration","isolate","isolation","lock","panic","prison","protect","protection","recluse","retreat","seclude","shelter","withdraw","withdrawn","world"],"id":117388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affable","alone","amicable","anchoress","anchorite","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","antisocial","approachable","ascetic","by-oneself","chummy","cloistered","clubby","communicative","companionable","companionless","convivial","cordial","eremite","extrovert","forthcoming","friendless","friendly","genial","gregarious","hail-fellow-well-met","hermit","hermitic","incommunicado","introvert","isolate","isolation","lone-wolf","lonely","loner","lonesome","marabout","misanthrope","misanthropy","on-one-s-own","open","outgoing","recluse","reclusive","responsive","seclude","secluded","sociable","solitarian","solitary","solitudinarian","troglodyte","unaccompanied","unsociable","warm","withdrawn"],"id":125070,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The Howard Hughes thing hadn’t actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...Oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.","author":"Heidi Betts","tags":["depression","ex","humor","jock","recluse","romance"],"id":149978,"author_id":"Heidi+Betts"},{"text":"Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes a recluse to the tower of the castle and begins to build something behind closed doors, not even his daughter knows what he’s up to. For five years, she only sees him briefly at meal-times before locking himself up in the tower once again...'...Did he have a bathroom in the tower?'Yes, Jack. A big one! En-suite! Power-shower and spa! Where was I!?","author":"Jonathan Dunne","tags":["bathroom","behind-closed-doors","bereavment","castle","clock","clockmaker","death","funny","grief","hilarious","loss","mourn","mourning","potty","potty-time","power","recluse","sarcasm","shower","spa","toilet","weird"],"id":154654,"author_id":"Jonathan+Dunne"},{"text":"I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["avoid","expect","expectations","listen","listening","meditation","recluse","silence","solitude","speak","speaking","talk","talking","tendency"],"id":222525,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Now it’s computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.Nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike I am now.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["computers","facebook","friends","hermit","internet","iphone","iphones","recluse","social-networking","social-networks"],"id":309016,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"A mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["hunchback-of-notre-dame","mother","recluse"],"id":318420,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}