*Amy stands up disgruntled again.* "Jeez. I keep forgetting that I'm here." *she stomps out of the room and returns with a couple of fluffy cushions which she plumps up in a corner.* "Well, if I'm stayin' then I might as well be comfortable"
"It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want."
Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul. — Kate Chopin, The Awakening