“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”

“My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.”

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”

“We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.”

“In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.”