When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Apple contrasts physical solitude with social isolation, arguing that loneliness is less about being alone than about lacking trust and emotional access to others. The quote frames loneliness as a relational condition: a crowd can intensify it because the presence of many people highlights the absence of a single safe connection. By emphasizing “trust” and the ability to “talk,” she points to vulnerability as the antidote—without it, social settings become performative and alienating. The observation aligns with themes common in her work: interiority, guardedness, and the cost of being misunderstood, suggesting that intimacy—not company—is what makes a person feel accompanied.