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"He was a nice man, pleasant, if unexciting, but the relationship caught Katherine in a vise. She thought she should like him more, and criticized herself for not being able to. That, like everything else, made her wonder what was the matter with her. Katherine, after all, had a way of turning all her feelings into food for the demons."

"She didn’t know which, if any, of her masks and costumes were real. She was, he said, “a very troubled lady.”

"The place feels like an impacted wisdom tooth: There is pain because there is so much beneath the surface."