Status Updates From A Leopard-Skin Hat

“She would watch herself like a woman in a china shop making sure she didn’t knock something over, or like someone prone to back pains, taking care not to make a move that might trigger an attack… It was as if she viewed her body in segments, only inhabited it in segments, moving around in this or that part of it.”

“You never know who your loved ones are or what they are capable of. Perhaps they have lives we never even suspect? Perhaps we all have lives the person closest to us knows nothing of? And perhaps this is what really attracts us to each other: the presence of this secret life which, from time to time, is revealed to us through a gleaming, narrow slit.”

“No doubt we all have someone else inside us.”