" Do people just wan to get high, fly away from their troubles? Are they trying to knock themselves out? What?
Rick was thoughtful for a moment. They just want to feel normal, he sad. The way they used to feel. They can still remember that feeling, you know, like a sense of home within, and they keep trying to get back to it.
I certainly understand that, said Lalika. Sometimes I feel like if I can’t get back to the wholeness of myself I’d rather be dead. I feel like being dead might even approximate that feeling, you know, of being one with myself again, of being whole. "

― Alice Walker , Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart