Status Updates From Bom-dia, meia-noite

“But it's not as bad as it might be. This is just the interval when drink makes you look nice, before it makes you look awful.”

“When I saw him looking up like that I knew that I loved him, and that it was for always. It was as if my heart turned over, and I knew that it was for always. It's a strange feeling - when you know quite certainly in yourself that something is for always. It's like what death must be. All the insouciance, all the gaiety is a bluff. Because I wanted to escape from London I fastened myself on him”

“Well, dear madame, to tell you the truth, what I want here is a drink - I rather think two, perhaps three.
It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery.”

“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armour at home.”

Now I have forgotten about dark streets, dark rivers, the pain, the struggle & the drowning...Mind you,I'm not talking about the struggle when you are strong & a good swimmer & there are willing and eager friends on the bank waiting to pull you out at the first sign of distress. I mean the real thing. You jump in with no willing & eager friends around, & when you sink you sink to the accompaniment of loud laughter.