Catharsis

“Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.”

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

“She was authentic, impulsive, incoherent to the point of breathlessness. Her joy was infinite, though broken by periods of sadness that were sweeter than her joy.”

“Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity. If we knew the truth, we’d see it; everything else is systems and approximations. The inscrutability of the universe is quite enough for us to think about; to want to actually understand it is to be less than human, since to be human is to realize it can’t be understood.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for…years now; it’s frozen shut.”