And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.