wrapped up in books

 

'we felt like we were being touched in a personal place, a little like our mothers would touch us - a touch that was emotionally erotic'

-The agonized face - don't cry Gaitskill

 'Dolores drank her coffee with even more sobriety. Everyone wanted to be depressed. But your depression was suppose to be funny, too and that was what had proved too much for Dolores'

- college town, 1980, don't cry

'He took her soul - though, being a secular-minded person, he didn't think of it that way. He didn't take the whole thing; that would not have been possible. But he got such a significant piece that it felt as if her entire soul was gone. As soon as he has it, he not only forgot he'd taken it; he forgot he's ever know about it. This was not the firs time, either.'

- Mirror ball - don't cry