There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.