Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.