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He made himself the cure, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t also created the disease.
You may not be the happiest wife, Arion, but I’m told this is why God invented Saks and Xanax.”
Life felt like hell because we expected it to feel like heaven.
“Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.
The secret of life that everyone knew and everyone forgot was that we weren’t alone. We thought we were unique. We thought we were the first. No one has been through what I’ve been through. No one else is feeling this. No one knows what it’s like to be me. This is the first time anyone has endured what I’ve endured, right? They’re lies we tell ourselves because we think we’re special.
I scaled my eyes down her face and form as she spun and leapt, wishing I could be the air around her and feel her move.
I finally craved one more thing I realized had been missing when I laid eyes on you again.”
It all felt so fake, like the makeup women put over their bruises to hide what’s happening to them. It’s an act.
Like a kill switch.
