Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.