It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

A sound waiting to be a word.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.