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‘It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn’t stop humming, or loving someone I could never have.’

‘The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine thoughts, aspirations, and beliefs in its own importance. Wat how easily it unravels, evaporates under the first lick of pain.’

‘Things touched Claire. Maybe too much, but at least they touched her. She couldn’t twist things around in het mind, make the ends come out right.’

‘The nearest I’d come to feeling anything like God was the plain blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?’

“She’s never where she is. She’s only inside her head.”

“Loneliness is the human condition… never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you… An intelligent sensitive person is the exception... If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”