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“From early childhood on, I was haunted by the feeling that no one could hear me.” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“And now I was proving that apparently I had learned no lesson at all about making bad, spontaneous, emotionally based decisions.” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘It’s just that I’m so tired of everybody throwing up their hands every time a relationship hits a rough patch,’ I said. ‘I did it in both my marriages, and I swore I wouldn’t do it again.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘There’s so much I wanted to give you. But I just couldn’t.’ ‘What the fuck does that mean?’ I screamed at him as he closed the door behind him. ‘is that some kind of bullshit for people without a grid?’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘A relationship with the opposite sex is like buying a new American car,’ he said, mixing paint. ‘It starts out looking great, but it only keeps going for about two and a half years. Then you spend the next two and a half years trying to restore it.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down [...]

“‘Well, there’s two kinds of peeing,’ he said.  ’There’s regular peeing, because you have to pee.  And then there’s auxiliary competitive peeing.  For acquiring an empire.  I’m all about the real estate.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘As a language purist, I can’t bring myself to say ‘grande latte,’ knowing that the rest of my sentence is going to be in English.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘So that jack-off goes with you to hold your hand? Unless he’s gay, he just wants to fuck you. No straight guy acts like that without a motive.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘And if none of this links to anything in you, well … I think you don’t know who I am. And that makes me think I’m just waiting around to be surprised that you’ve decided it’s time for you to get out of here. Again.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“‘I’m not into bullshit clichés like dying.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe