#2 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006

After staying in Italy for ten days Liz succumbs back to loneliness and depression. Only Liz does not refer to them as "loneliness" and "depression" but as Loneliness and Depression. She personifies them as two cops with whom she was very familiar with after several years of enjoying their company. Loneliness is the nicer cop but is still ruthless and Depression is the brawn of the two. In the night that followed she wrote to herself in her notebook to bring herself much needed comfort. She wrote, "I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me." When she awoke the next morning both Depression and Loneliness were gone. 

When I was little I was always the odd one out. I was always targeted by bullies for being over emotional and never had more than one or two friends at a time until I reached fourth grade. Loneliness was kind of a given, and so was depression to tell the truth although I don't suppose I can quite call it that. It was more like continuous sadness. But had my loneliness and sadness became Loneliness and Sadness, I believe I would have prevailed a lot better. I was not lonely, Loneliness was stalking me. I could never be sad, Sadness could only spy on me. It is much easier to fight someone else than yourself and with the superhuman strength all children have, Loneliness and Sadness would have never stood a chance.