More on this book
Kindle Notes & Highlights
It didn’t occur to me that solitude is like a mysterious drug; at first, you fear it and reject it. But when you finally try it, you begin to crave the way it makes you feel.
Battling my inner demons to reconfigure my direction in life promised to be easier than battling my family’s inhibitions. How could I explain in words my craving for freedom, that longing for anonymity, the need to distance myself from everything I knew in my universe . .
how can you explain the joy of feeling in tune with the wind and the ocean and the sky and your own heart, even if it only seems like loneliness to the rest of the world?
The spaces between us taught me that I didn’t need to cling to my relationships. The ones that were strong enough would sustain themselves through distance and time; the ones that weren’t were not worth clinging to anyway.
Una vida—one life! Choose how you want to live it and don’t judge others for their choices.
After all, we were not put on earth to be prisoners of an unpredictable future. We were put on earth to live our present with a fierce courage, that when the future comes we can look it in the eye without a hint of fear and charm it with the adventures of our past.
And as I lay there, a shooting star darted through the sky, reminding me that any magical feeling in our lives is much like the magic in the sky—fleeting.
