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She had found love with both of them; different kinds of love. The first had given her romantic love; the second something to love. Of course, where there is love, there are enormous, endless amounts of suffering. The suffering you cause, the suffering caused to you.
When you lay everything on the line, it’s human nature to be dismissive of people beneath you, and hate those above you, until you go up a rung and the cycle begins all over again.
Murr-ma. An expression in Wagiman, an indigenous Australian language fewer than ten people in the entire world can speak, a word that describes what they’ve been doing until today. Murr-ma. Searching for an object in the water with their feet. Which is tricky, because your other senses want to help you out but they only get in the way.
Faayalo zweegbei. “‘Only he who goes to find water can break the pitcher.’
