Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.