QUOTE : Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she had said: <i>When you love me</i> (and she had not meant “make love to me”) <i>it’s as if God forgave me for being the mess I am;</i> and I took it as chicanery, another emotional blackmail, to make me feel essential and so give me a sense of responsibility towards her.