Mika’s Reviews > Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone > Status Update

They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the deepest necessity to despise them. exactly like those who had first maligned them, they saw what their history had taught them to see. I did not know if one ever sees more than that.
If one ever does, it can only be because one has learned to read one's history and resolved to step out of the book.

Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
… one does many things, turns the key in the lock over and over again, hoping to be locked out.
… And yet - one would prefer, after all, not to be locked out. One would prefer, merely, that the key unlocked a less stunningly unusual door.