Havoc

by Christopher Bollen

An eight-year-old child, he has not yet built hideaways or secret cubbyholes in his head for the concealment of strange desires and fixations.

We all need to escape our lives every so often. To recognize the cage we’ve found ourselves in, the bars around us that we’ve accepted as normal because they’ve risen up so slowly and imperceptibly over the years. That’s how life betrays you, day by day, when you aren’t paying attention.”

Americans are the least at home of any people in the world, never quite able to settle into their surroundings, a part of them always off somewhere better or worse in their heads.

I’ve found that the best way to hide a secret is to keep it from yourself.

friendships wrecked, emotional support lines fractured, future children no longer conceived, homes with heavy mortgages sold at a loss. But those are the sacrifices we make to be free.