“I felt confident that she wouldn't find out what a chicken I was,because after the comp,if I hadn't gone off the jump,I would be dead of shame.And if I had gone off the jump,I would be just plain dead.”
“It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.”
“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”
“If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.”
“I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.”
“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”