truly desperate housewives

"I was bored. That's part of what I'm trying to say. I don't think I've ever been more bored or depressed and fed up in my life than I was last night. (...) I remember looking at you and thinking "God, if only he'd stop talking". Because everythinh you said was based on this premise of ours that we're somehow very special and superior to the whole thing, and I wanted to say "But we're not! Look at us! We're just like the people you're talking about! We are the people you're talking about!" I sort of had - I don't know, contempt for you, because you couldn't see the terrific fallacy of the thing. And then this morning when you left, when you're backing the car around down at the turn, I saw you look back up at the house as if it was going to bite you." - Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road.