Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

The lawn was white with doctors

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

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