“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
“My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin.”
“The absence of you ruined my life.”
“The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.”
“Fantasies really ought to stay fantasies-reality only ruins them”
“I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.”