Status Updates From Hungerstone

‘It was easier to avoid the pain when there was nowhere for it to go.’

“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”

‘One way to ensure my future was to populate it not with people who cared for me but with people for whom it would be deeply inconvenient if I were to be absent.’

‘To be exposed as vulnerable, as not knowing, was the greatest danger possible; death, at least, offered certainty; to be vulnerable meant being at the mercy of others, one’s whole selfhood at risk.’