“My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.”

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

“I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.”

“I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.”

“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”

“"You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.”

“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”

“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”

“Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise.
-A”

“There's a cat in the window, of the house of my lover.
Well she sleeps there alone now, or perhaps with another.
Oh I try no to think about that, I try not to think at all!”