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A lot of the time when I try to talk to someone, I feel like I must be really boring. Because I’ll notice that whoever I’m talking to is just zoned out and not interested in what I’m saying at all. That’s why I don’t talk a lot usually, I guess. I mean even with my friends, I don’t. Something might come into my head to…

About the crying, however, he feels calm, not panicked. Perhaps because as soon as her tears began, she came to him and put her face in his shoulder. And whatever she’s crying about or thinks she’s crying about, this still seems to mean something: that she wants to feel his arms around her, which is the same thing he…

He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind. He has his good qualities, kind of, but none of them have much to do with living in the world that he actually lives in, the only world that can be said in a fairly real way to exist.

what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?

Life has slipped free of its netting. She can do very strange things now, she can find herself a very strange person. Young men can invite her into holiday cottages for sexual reasons. It means nothing. That isn’t true: it means something, but the meaning is unfamiliar.

What does it mean then to love someone? I am curious. If you don’t care about the person’s feelings, and you are not nice to them, and you don’t really want them to be happy, how is that love in your opinion? 

Language doesn’t fit on to reality like a toy is fitting in to a slot. Reality is actually one thing and language is something else.

Life itself, he thinks, every moment of life, is as precious and beautiful as any game of chess ever played, if only you know how to live.

This is life, the experience, this is all there has ever been. To force this moment into contact with her ordinary existence only seems to reveal how constricting, how misshapen her ideas of life have been before.