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“Where all her other friends had disappeared to was a mystery she had no interest in solving.”
“How was your childhood?" "Not good," I scrawled and handed the questionnaire back to him.”
“Afterwards, she felt stupid, like she had revealed more than she intended.”
“I was scared." "Scared of death? That's natural." "No . . . scared of everything else.”
“He had several versions of his own past; all that remained consistent was how he had overcome.”
“It felt like intimacy, or as close to intimacy as we could get.”
“I'd been feeling the sharp deterioration of our love for some time.”
“It wasn't terrible but it was empty. It was one long flash of emptiness.”
“She would barely be recovered from one of these conversations when another would happen.”
“My phone was more real to me than the people I encountered.”
“Over us, like a threat, hung a painted, shimmering sky.”
“I couldn't hold down furniture and I couldn't hold down people. It all just peeled away from me.”
“Despite everything we had done to each other, we remained close.”
“I hadn't moved on. I don't know how anybody moves on from anything.”
“But I don't like this. I don't like superficial connections with people.”
“He was in the early stages of grief for someone he had never known.”
“It's terrible when you get old enough to dislike your old friends.”
“a feeling of forever melancholy . . .”
“I was done with trying. There was nothing to do and I didn't feel like doing it.”
“Next day: the usual show. My bed; dry-mouthed; alone; my entire life still before me.”
“I promised myself this would all end, at some point or another.”
“What have I done to deserve this life?”
“It was hard to know who to be minute by minute.”
“I was such a good girlfriend, god damn it. It was an outrage how lovely I was.”
“My life, and what I did with it, became a sort of mystery then.”
“I wanted him to wait and I wanted to be the thing he was waiting for.”