They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?
Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.
...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
