Tender is the Flesh

But he remains silent and smiles.

He knows he doesn’t have to say anything to this man, just agree, but there are words that strike at his brain, accumulate, cause damage

He wishes he could anaesthetize himself and live without feeling anything. Act automatically, observe, breathe and nothing more. See everything, understand and not talk. But the memories are there, they remain with him.

The fact that a woman ran the shop put everyone at ease.

How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else?

He remembers Hitchcock’s The Birds, and how much of an impact the film had had on him when he saw it, and how he wished it hadn’t been prohibited

He remembers Hitchcock’s The Birds, and how much of an impact the film had had on him when he saw it, and how he wished it hadn’t been prohibited.

Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.

not to have to call them by any name

what is a human but will never be a person