“A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.”
“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
“At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.”
“In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.”
“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”
“now it becomes clear that he's one of those people who is fastidious about his personal appearance but secretly skivenly about everything else”