“I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!”
“I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.”
“I don't want to lose you," he whispered again. "And I didn't want to be lost.”
“I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.”
“...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...”
“I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.”