“I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.”
“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life. ”
“I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.”
“My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude”
“Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
“I was never a coward," he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. "I was just sensible.”