“Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.”

“I usually try to ignore or avoid the people I dislike, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to ignore myself, and to avoid myself is simple impossible.”

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

“I kept myself aloof from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends there. Not because they damaged me, as this happens usually, but because they thought I'm better than I really am. It was a lie that I could not stand.”

“You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.”

“And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.”