What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.