“You do realize that you are a termite. You are eating through my soul.”
“You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.”
“There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.”
“Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.”
“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
“My mom said that it just happens sometimes when you get older. You get halfway through with your life and you realize you haven't done the things you wanted to do or become what you'd thought you'd become and it's disheartening”