Everything seems simple until you think about it.

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.

I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.