“When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”
“...knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.”
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...”
“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
“I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.”
“Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.”