[b]Edward St. Aubyn
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too small if it’s cherished.[/b]
You tell me about yours, I’ll tell you about mine.
Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state?
And now the states were stacked to the ceiling.
They had never met, but she had come to understand what had driven Victor’s wife to seek refuge in a full set of Snoopy mugs.
Explain this please.
Unlike the riotous appetites of adolescence, his present cravings had a tragic tinge, they were cravings for the appetites, metacravings, wanting to want.
In other words, when not just anything will do. In fact, when almost nothing does.
Other people knew what they were meant to say, knew what they were meant to mean, and other people still knew what the other people meant when they said it.
So, sure, it might happen here.
Most people either felt regret at staying with someone for too long, or regret at losing them too easily. I manage to feel both ways at the same time…
Or [more likely] both at different times.