I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

There is more than one good way to drown.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.