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“…I realized that places are kingdoms of memories and relationships; that the landscape is only ever a reflection of how you feel inside.”

“as with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.”

“I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.

Which was fine. I wasn’t in the mood to be solved.”

‘The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer.’

“Maybe we’re not supposed to know all the answers. Questions are good. They’re better than answers. If you want to know more about life, how we work, how we progress, it’s questions that are important. That’s what pushes and stretches our intellect. I think questions make us feel less lonely and more connected. It’s not always about knowing. I appreciate not knowing. Not knowing is human.”

“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”

“Without faith, people fall for honeyed words.”

‘Hope,’ he said. ‘Damn thing never leaves you alone.’

‘Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.’

“Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.”

“Is that poem true? Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”

“‘I’m here,’ I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I’m panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I’m here.”