“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
“My memories make me vomit.”
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.”
“Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.”
“I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me.”
“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”
“She knew that one day, when she was a very old woman, she would dream this dream for the last time, and in this very last dream of all she would see the little white horse, and he would not go away from her. He would come towards her, and she would run towards him, and he would carry her on his back away and away, she did not quite know where, but to a good place, a place where she wanted to be.”