“You've always been skinny,always will." I can feeleachreclusivebonepoke through,the bones of Embarrassment,Anger,Relief.I push some back in,but leaveAngersticking out.”
“I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.”
“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.”
“But it always came back to anger.”
“I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)”
“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”