“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“Waiting patiently doesn’t suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.”

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”

“The things we love destroy us every time…Remember that.”

“I cannot tell you. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language that is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.