Status Updates From A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't - and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Heartbreak is a little like falling in love, in the way it charges everything with a kind of incandescence, as though the beloved has stepped away and your gaze now rests with all the same intensity on all the items of the view that close-up person blocked.

... he ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

...lost not in practical terms but in the more profound sense of apprehending where they truly were, of caring what the history of the place was and its nature.