And now — now all I can do is light a cigarette and go home. My God, I just remembered that we die. But — but me too?!
Don’t forget that for now it’s strawberry season. Yes.
Even for crossing the street she was already a different person. A person pregnant with the future. She felt inside her a hope more violent than any despair she had ever felt. If she was no longer herself that meant a loss that counted as a gain. Just as you can be sentenced to death, the fortune-teller had sentenced her to life. Everything suddenly was a lot and a lot and so wide that she felt like crying. But she didn’t: her eyes glistened like the dying sun.
For the last three days, alone, without characters, I depersonalize myself and take myself off as if taking off clothes. I depersonalize myself so much that I fall asleep.