Turtles all the way down

I must be a mermaid, Rango.

You were suspicious of their feelings because you had no reason to love yourself - not your body, not your mind. You rejected so much gentleness.

I‘m most lonelied by people whose loneliness I cannot touch.

Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives. It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money - but an unspoken agreement of love.

We always say that we are beneath the stars. We aren’t, of course - there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human - we are whos, other animals are thats - but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.

What does it feel like to be lonely?