Luna

“Don’t fall in love with everything: Fall in love with sunsets, with the pure and unpolluted eyes of an animal, with the flower petals in spring, with the rain beating against your window while you’re reading a book, and with people who respect your views, even if they don’t share all of them. But don’t fall in love with materialism, with the technological progress that makes machines the masters of our souls, and with people who only want to take advantage of you.”

“Trauma permanently changes us. This is the frightening truth about betrayal. You never really get over it. At best, you grieve and make some kind of peace with it. But a major life disruption leaves a new normal behind. There’s no going back to who you were before.”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“How can you be so positive when the world’s so negative?“ She was thinking for a moment, looking into the distance of the valley, as she always did when she had some profound thoughts. “I am not closing my eyes to all the evil, but I have learned to do as the plants do: I take in all the negative energy and then try to transform it into something beautiful, something helpful and positive.” She was breathing in evil and breathing out beauty.”