hey, they found a body. not sure if it's his but they're using his name..
-tori amos, past the mission
"when i left him two or so year later i told myself that i wanted to know other men... that was true but largely irrelevant. it had almost nothing to do with my ending it, but i knew it would sound reasonable enough... it would sound reasonable enough should the other reasons, the real reasons, fade from my memory in years to come and should i need to remember why. there is no doubt a certain excitement in the very newness of a new relationship, but it is transitory. after a while the novelty of the novelty wears off and you have to resort to deceiving yourself about the quality of whomever you're knowing at the time... it's a very dangerous time. you can ruin your life then in the time it takes to say 'i do'. for all that, when i left there was some element of truth in the pretext that i wanted to know other men. i just had not considered that their "otherness" would always make them worse. ... when you leave you never begin to consider the possibility that, in leaving the best you've had so far, you are leaving the best you will ever have." -anna, from seven types of ambiguity
"but i couldn't have stayed with simon... that would have been too stultifying."
"when i left him two or so year later i told myself that i wanted to know other men... that was true but largely irrelevant. it had almost nothing to do with my ending it, but i knew it would sound reasonable enough... it would sound reasonable enough should the other reasons, the real reasons, fade from my memory in years to come and should i need to remember why. there is no doubt a certain excitement in the very newness of a new relationship, but it is transitory. after a while the novelty of the novelty wears off and you have to resort to deceiving yourself about the quality of whomever you're knowing at the time... it's a very dangerous time. you can ruin your life then in the time it takes to say 'i do'. for all that, when i left there was some element of truth in the pretext that i wanted to know other men. i just had not considered that their "otherness" would always make them worse. ... when you leave you never begin to consider the possibility that, in leaving the best you've had so far, you are leaving the best you will ever have." -anna, from seven types of ambiguity
"but i couldn't have stayed with simon... that would have been too stultifying."