“What if it’s the there and not the here that I long for? The wander and not the wait, the magic in the lost feet stumbling down the faraway street and the way the moon never hangs quite the same.”

"I can't tell you any stories," I say, "because I've got this gap. There's an empty chasm between me and everybody else. I wave my arms about inside it but I can't get hold of anything, I shout into it but no one hears: it's total emptiness."

“…I have been struggling to find my safe place and sufficiently trust it. I have been struggling very hard.”

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

أحد الأحلام التي أود أن أعاود التصديق في وجودها هو الأمان في إظهار الضعف أمام الآخر، والتصديق في وجوده بدلًا من الركض المستمر، والتكور على النفس، واليأس، زي ما قال علي شريعتي لزوجته: