marianne woke up from her nightmare, seemingly distressed,
still haunted by the harrowing image of the day they finalised their divorce,
I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won’t be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live. (Charlie Kaufman, author of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and director of Synecdoche, New York)