“It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.”

أحد الأحلام التي أود أن أعاود التصديق في وجودها هو الأمان في إظهار الضعف أمام الآخر، والتصديق في وجوده بدلًا من الركض المستمر، والتكور على النفس، واليأس، زي ما قال علي شريعتي لزوجته:

"Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hair-dos. They want their lover to remember the way they held a glass. They want to haunt.