If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.