“Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam.”

“Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the wa...”

“A crack on the road does not terminate the journey”

“No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. Were all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as theyd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girl...”

“...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.”

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”

“And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”