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“I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feelinga feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my ...”
“I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.”
“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.”
“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.”
“He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.”
“I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.”
“Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather.”
“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.”
“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other.”
“And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater cooled and shook me back into my body where my fingerprints were r...”
“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.”
“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.”
“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.”
“I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth itthat she'd be better off not livingand how was I supposed to live af...”
“I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.”
“I was thinking about stabbing myself in the facenot actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.”
“I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just his youth talking, not a dogma.”
“I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.”
“Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realized then that if I had a daughter and she had a rabbit and that rabbit was alone with me and I was ...”
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at that framed memory hanging in myself and it meant I was here, back in this sick city, but ...”
