“I said to her "I won't be happy if I get in and you don't," and Mara gave a look and said "Yes you will.". I realized that she was right and that needing people and caring about them were two very different things. I tucked this thought inside me like a fortune into a cookie. It was a secret and it made me feel powerful, even though I didn't understand why.”

“I tucked this thought inside me like a fortune into a cookie.”

“...needing people and caring about them were two very different things.”

“I realized I still wanted to dream about the person I would become, not actually be her.”

“I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.”

“If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?”

“And I had forgotten to get more Sweet’N Low, so I had to drink coffee as bitter as I am.”