No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.