Xip Trip

“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”

““She has what soul loves to flow into. She’s kind, she weeps. She makes quick personal decisions, and laughs so easily.””

“One of these days you’re going to wake up and realize you’re beautiful and powerful … That will be the day you stop running after people who don’t see your worth. That will be a really good day.”