Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

“The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the …”

“All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.”

“The pursuer's blind spot is that he never thinks he's being pursued.”

“And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symboli…”