If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.