That's what I discovered about myself last night. I told myself I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost.
"Somehow I've become separated emotionally from everyone and everything.
And what I was really searching for out there in the dark streets —the last damned place I could ever find it—
was a way to make myself a part of people again emotionally, while still retaining my freedom intellectually.
I've got to grow up. For me it means everything..."
I talked on and on, spewing out of myself every doubt and fear that bubbled to the surface.
She was my sounding board and she sat there hypnotized.
I felt myself grow warm, feverish, until I thought my body was on fire.
I was burning out the infection in front of someone I cared about, and that made all the difference.
But it was too much for her. What had started as trembling became tears.
The picture over the couch caught my eye—the cringing, red-cheeked maiden—and I wondered what Alice was feeling just then.
I knew she would give herself to me, and I wanted her, but what about Charlie?
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