“(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg”
“Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die." —Ruth Mendenberg”
“I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.—Ruth Mendenberg”
“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg”
“[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.”
“[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.”