That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shellsโhe becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.
Ted HughesThe dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it
Ted HughesIn the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.
Ted Hughes