I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.
I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
Writing a novel is like having a dream.
Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.
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