I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

“He followed his daily routine, and she followed hers. But without her there, Te…”

“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds …”

“It was the usual noontime university scene, but as I sat watching it with renew…”

“I never had any ambitions to be a novelist.”