I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.