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“I almost believed that I wasn’t going to be allowed to escape; whatever I did would lead to another barrier, and then another, until I stopped and gave in.”

“Reality had become a nightmare, and sleep beckoned insistently; a black hole calling me, pain-free, lost in time, like death.”

“Words wasted into the snow and wind, shouted to no one in particular in a shaking fury of bitterness and grievance. Idiot words, as meaningless as the hissing empty wind around me.”

“…I could ignore much of the pain. It became one more difficultly to contend with and merged with all the other problems…”

"If you succeed with one dream, you come back to square one and it's not long before you're conjuring u another, slightly harder, a bit more ambitious—a bit more dangerous. I didn't like the thought of where it might be leading me, As if, in some strange way, the very nature of the game was controlling me, taking me towards a logical but frightening conclusion; it always unsettled me, this moment..."