The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.