March 28, 2011

I pulled an arm away because I didn't want to hear this.  I actually needed to feel I was alone.  Why did I need the grief of others?  Wasn't mine enough?  Why did I need to feel that this abandonment was plural, when it was heavy enough singular?  The best way ahead that I could see was to drag this thing off and digest it on my own, like a python with an outsized kill. ~ Sebastian Faulks (from "Engleby")