Sabrina

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.

It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me.“

Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more.

Frightened of my mind + having little control over my body, I embraced anorexia as the seemingly perfect solution.

[But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.] He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

I float face down in past flesh: it lets me touch the living without shame.

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.