Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

...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.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.