"Most people come to New York to be discovered. The
rest of us come here to hide."
"It's what you do when you've experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you...people worse off than you...and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you."
"I've never been involved in such a heavy conversation with a complete stranger before. I kind of want it to end, because where does the conversation even go from here? It doesn't. It just stops."
"Funny how one of the most populated cities in the world [Manhattan] can double as a paradise for agoraphobics."
"Find what you love and let it kill you." - Charles Bukowski
"Those were thoughts I couldn't admit to him, of course. I might have been obsessed with him, but a woman knows if she wants to keep a man forever, she has to act like she could get over him in a day."
"I'm not sure I ever saw [my father] angry. Not even at my mother, with her prickly comments and frequent hot temper. I grew to resent that about him, though. Sometimes I perceived his patience as weakness when it came to her."
"With the imagination of a writer, every noise becomes a theat."
"There's too much inside me that wants to be more than his friend, which means we can't be friends at all. If an attraction is present between the people, those two people can only be one of two things. Involved or not involved. There is no in-between."
"Even the sex felt different. Like he was disconnected. Fucking me because it was our routine and not because he craved me."
"I was good at spewing bullshit. It's why I became a writer."
"I understand he made vows, but at what cost? His entire life? People get married assuming they'll live long, happy lives together. What happens when one of those is cut short, but the other is expected to live out those vowes for the rest of their life?"
"I'm afraid any conversation will lead him to think about what we're doing and how we shouldn't be doing it, so I remain quiet."
"It's like he was disconnected from me, using me to get off, to feel better, to get a quick rush of something."
"I love her. She was my wife. But sometimes I wasn't sure we really knew each other. We lived together, but it's as if our worlds weren't connected."
"Page after page of a truth so harsh, it never should have been written."
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