B’s Reviews > My Year of Rest and Relaxation > Status Update

“‘Life could go on forever like this’, I thought. Life would, if I didn’t take action.”

“…and I feel sorry for myself. Not because I miss my parents, but because there was nothing they could have given me if they’d lived. They weren’t my friends, they didn’t comfort me or give me good advice, they weren’t people I wanted to talk to. They barely even knew me. They were too busy to want to imagine my life in Manhattan.”

“[…] All the men I’d ever been with, young as well as old, had been detached and unfriendly. ‘You’re a cold fish, that’s why’, Reva explained. ‘Like attracts like’.
As a friend, Reva was indeed corny, and affectionate, and needy, but she was also very secretive and occasionally very patronizing.
She couldn’t, or simply wouldn’t understand why I wanted to sleep all the time […]”