“The loss of love negates everything good about us. Never mind that everyone else in the world has gone through at least one bad breakup; ours – our current one, never any of the ones before – is the worst. Nobody else has ever experienced such pain, and the only relief from that pain is punishment, swift and severe. So we cut, or burn, or starve, or purge, or write all over ourselves with Sharpies, or imprison ourselves in basements.”
