“I want to be inside your darkest everything”

“Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.”

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

“She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.”

“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”

“Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.”

“Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.”

“Everything off. I want to see you in your horrific potbellied hairy filthy nakedness.”

“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

“I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.”