Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.