You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

If Eve had not eaten the apple, nothing of any interest would have happened in the last few billion years.

I'm certain you're depressed because you're never truly present; your eyes shift from one side to the other, there's no light behind them, just weariness. On the night of the book launch, I saw you were making a superhuman effort to speak with the others there- everyone must seem dull, inferior, all the same.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality