- "evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream" (pg. 1)
- "I always had a terribly hard time trying to imagine people in bed together." (pg. 6)
- "There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour." (pg. 16)
- "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." (pg. 18)
- "Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say, 'I'll go take a hot bath.'" (pg. 19)
- "they are all dissolving and none of them matter anymore" (pg. 20)
- "The room hovered around me with great gentleness, as if the chairs and the tables and the walls were withholding their weight out of sympathy for my sudden frailty." (pg. 47)
mar 12 2012 ∞
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