“What makes this inner void so difficult to deal with is that it's amorphous. We can't fix it because we can't pinpoint its precise cause. And even if we could, we wouldn't be able to banish it. It's the price we pay for being human.”
“We want what we can't have. It's human nature.”
“It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.”
“What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”
“We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention”
“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”