Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.

Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

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.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.