“On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free.I gorged myself until my tummy ached.”

“I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.”

“For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?”

“I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.”

“and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.”

“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”

“And slowly the snow began to melt. First, doing a number on children's constructions; Then retreating to the foundations of barns and other buildings. Mangy grass poked through the receding snow. Patches of white were swallowed up in the till of the fields. New shapes emerged. Areas of the forest became INACCESSIBLE now that the snow no longer weighed down the weeds and brier. ...Nothing fits together anymore.”