“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

“You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.”

“I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: "What's the point?”

“It is so exquisitely funny and sad, the way we view each other; how very little, despite our best efforts, we communicate.”

“If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine.”

“Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.”

“Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.”