If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

Life was a pre-death experience.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer.