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"Human beings seem willing to pay whatever price is necessary to feel loved, to belong, to make sense, and to feel as if they matter, even if the price exacted doesn't really accomplish that."

"The truth is: Starved for anger's release, I first howled primitively. Rage-o-phope turned fury fiend--moderation never really was my thing."

"Is something terrible happens to me, it's not my job to spare you from my pain."

"The sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to find it totally unchanged. Did he not feel the same swell of relief? Or was he just better at hiding it?"

"A gracious rule of etiquette designed to shame the lonely on a night that celebrated the loved."

"He thought if the two of them together could share their loneliness, then they would no longer be lonely and she would not need to die."

"Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for it's immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion."

"What everyone fails to notice, when talking to the other humans, to mothers and lovers and strangers in the street, is the one obvious point: 'future corpse, future corpse.'"

"You can bury parts of yourself for a while, but they always come back. People do that all the time--they try to become the person who they think the other person wants them to be, and then six months or six years later, they realize how unhappy they are being this other person, and it's all over. Same result, it just takes longer."

"She sensed that for women love came at a cost, and that there was part of her no man was ever likely to accept."

"Somehow I can't get behind the idea that a generation of young women would give up casual sex for casual baking because a retrograde reporter promises it will be so much more fulfilling."

"Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart..."

"Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart..."

"Love is a grave mental illness."

"There are women and there's pussy."

"But a car, even on Dead Man's Curve, even on avery dangerous road, will take you a lot further than a man."

"love is gone not because it is renounced but because it is forgotten?"

"love is gone not because it is renounced but because it is forgotten?"

"Can't you show me nothing more than surrender?"

"Bad girls don't wait around."

"And I have to count on those mights, all of them. They're all I've got right now."

"Abandon all hope, all ye who enter."

"There's got to be a better way. There must be some unscrupulous degenerate who will help me out. And then I remember Ray."

"Anyway, to hell with it. You look like I need a drink, scotch all right?"

"Anyway, to hell with it. You look like I need a drink, scotch all right?"

"Anyway, to hell with it. You look like I need a drink, scotch all right?"

"Anyway, to hell with it. You look like I need a drink, scotch all right?"