Social Solitude Seekers Gifts

An Introvert's Guide to Surviving a Party

"Too crowded. Let's go."

"It's not the persistent lack of sunlight or freezing temperatures that bother me - it's the crowds I can't stand."

Club Antisocial

The Solitary 'Pleasure' Fisherman whose one desire is to get away from it all.

"I gotta be me!"

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

A vampire in a canoe.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

I should probably get out more.

Excess Baggage: Some people take getting away from it all very seriously.

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

Crowded Ice Fishing

'Betty liked the way her house provided lots of private space.'

"To be honest, I don't mind the cold, and being an introvert, and slightly antisocial, I really treasure the quiet time when the others have flown south..."

"The previous tenant was a bit of a shut-in."

"I'm leaving. It's just way too much collaborating."

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"Yes, I'm alone."

She required plenty of personal space.

'It's a sign of the times, a high rise block of caves reserved for hermits.'

The lonely figure

"It's a beautiful day. I should go for a walk. . . Oh, now my neighbors are all out there."

This man is an island.

'What I've learnt sitting on this mountain, alone for ten years, is how boring sitting alone on a mountain for ten years is!'

'Do you ever just feel like getting away from it all?'

'Openly sobbing, or non-openly sobbing?'

"Well, it gets lonely up here!"

The Piano Dreams Of Home

"Someday we will escape from this prison."

A politician's dream come true...

"I'm upstairs right now. On weekends and holidays, I go downstairs."

'A-1 security from crime ... but can't stand the isolation.'

'Thoreau, doing research on chapter 7'