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"I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to."

"I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent most of my childhood years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as thought my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dinner, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home."

"Some days he was so bored, he wanted to chew wood."