December 2009
86 posts
You’ve ruined it for me, you know. Ruined what? Being alone.
Everyone in life is going to hurt you -
You just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.
This is a story of boy meets girl.
But you should know up front, this is not a love story.
“Richard. You wrote a whole book.”
“But everything’s left out of it, almost everything. And then I just stuck on a shock ending. Oh, now, I’m not looking for sympathy, really. We want so much, don’t we?”
“Yes. I suppose we do.”
“I think you have become inhuman,” she said to me.
“I’m not the only betrayer.”
“I don’t think you care - that this has happened among us. You slide past everything with your fear and hate of ownership, of owning, of being owned, of being named. You think this is a virtue. I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find...