- Nowadays, if you try to grasp the reality of anything, there's always a whole slew of convoluted extras that come with it: hidden advertising, dubious discount coupons, point cards stores hand out that you know you should throw out but still hold on to, options that are forced on you before you know what's happening.
- What I wanted was to be one with her, with nothing coming in between us. To possess her, to be possessed. I needed a sign to prove that. Sexual desire figured into it, of course, but that wasn't the main thing. I'm talking about a sense of being one, physically. I'd never once experienced that sense of oneness with a person. I'd always been alone, always feeling tense, stuck behind a wall. I was positive that once we were one, my wall would come crumbling down, and I'd discover who I was, the self I'd only had vague glimpses of.
- Until then he'd always seen that wall as protecting him, but now it was a barrier, barring his way.
- Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.
- We might have ended up happy. But we'd already passed that point. That possibility was sealed up, frozen solid. And it would never open up again.
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