Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.