QUOTE : This is the opposite of love, I realize, when I look over and see my empty couch, see right through my imaginary companions. The opposite of love isn't hate; it isn't even indifference. It's fucking disembowelment. Hara-kiri. Taking a huge shovel and digging out your own heart, and your intestines, and leaving behind nothing. Nothing of yourself to give, nothing, even, to take away. Nothing but a quiet pulse and some mildly entertaining soap operas.<br /><br />If to love is to hand over self and heart, then this, my friend, this - to self-disembowel - is its opposite.<br /><br />I wish I knew how to needlepoint so I could stitch it onto a fucking pillow.