I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

books are like confort food without the calories

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.