...the Need was very strong now, very careful cold coiled creeping crackly cocked and ready, very strong, very much ready now—and still it waited and watched and it made me wait and watch.

“It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.”

“Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am.”

“I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationshi…”

“The more I heard it in my thoughts, themore sense it made. And beyond sense, it…”