light chaser

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

“And so it seems that I must always write you letters that I can never send.”

“Something had caught fire within me, a purpose had revealed itself.”

“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.”

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”