Quotes from Stephen Carpenter

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.

How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?