Vipassana’s Reviews > Faces in the Crowd > Status Update

I've never been able to say the things I think in the tone I imagine before uttering them.

Laura and Enea took me, they didn't ask questions; they're the kind of people who know how to respect others, not to ask explanations.

Leave a life. Blow everything up. No, not everything: blow up the square meter you occupy among people. Or better still: leave empty chairs at the tables you once shared with friends, not metaphorically, but really, leave a chair, become a gap for your friends, allow the circle of silence around you to swell and fill with speculation. What few people understand is that you leave one life to start another.

If you really want to get under a person's skin, make an accusation about their moral hygiene.

I knew it wasn't a good idea to place the least trust in household objects; as soon as we became accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears.