Quotes from B. Delores Max

Nothing like rejection to make what is wholly yours seem sweet and right.

The reason that we feel jealous is that we feel abandoned. This is absurd, because I am a grown-up person capable of looking after myself. I cannot, literally, be abandoned.

The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other – I with words, Hugh with silence – for being each other.

There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went 'what?' Or worse, feeling interrupted and tires, 'wha-?' It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it.

She would try then not to think too strenuously about her whole life. She would try to live one day at a time, like an alcoholic – drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.