... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

It was a tragedy to begin with, ... But now we have a homicide-slash-attempted suicide.

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.