Allison > Status Update

“‘People are a lot more knowable than they think they are’, he adds.”

“She hates the person she has become, without feeling any power to change anything about herself.”

“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”

“Even of the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated in some degree to this marketing.”

“He was like a freezer item that had thawed too quickly on the outside and was melting everywhere, while the inside was still frozen solid.”

“But he was never damaged like she was. She just made him feel that way.”