It's strange. Hearing you say my name."
"I can say it again if you'd like."
"No, I'll remember just fine.
And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it.
Andrew PyperWe need to talk." she says.
"The four most dreaded words in the history of marriage.
The dead boy floats by.
Andrew PyperDarkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.
Andrew PyperAnd what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I’ve never known with either man or woman since childhood, and perhaps not even then.
Andrew PyperFuck you. You think this is a scene in some indie drama you take my wife to in the Village, some pack of lies the guy at the Times said was so naturalistically performed. But in real life? We’re bad actors. We’re slobs who actually hurt. You don’t feel it, you couldn’t, but the pain you’re causing us—causing my family—it’s destroying our lives, what we have together. What we had.
Andrew PyperYour melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I’ve studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they’re just different names for loneliness. That’s what lets the darkness in. That’s what you have to fight.
Andrew PyperI’ve never been able to figure out what you’re so scared of, but there’s something in you that’s got you backed into a corner so tight your eyes are closed against it,” she says. “You don’t have to tell me what it is. I bet you don’t even know yourself. But here’s the thing: I probably won’t be around for you when you face it down. I wish I could be, but I won’t. You’re going to need someone. You won’t make it if you’re alone. I don’t know of anyone who could.
Andrew PyperSometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
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