“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”

“Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.”

“You must be willing to take off the blinders and open your eyes, to see what lie ahead of you.”

“Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.”

“I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.”

“This way of behaving, this way of feeling, so hysterical, so sad, when someone has died, I don't like at all and would like to avoid. It's not as if the whole thing has not happened before, it's not as if people have not been dying all along and each person left behind is the first person ever left behind in the world. What to make of it? Why can’t everybody just get used to it? People are born and they just can’t go on and on, but it is so hard, so hard for the people left behind; it’s so hard to see them go, as if it had never happened before, and so hard it could not happen to anyone else, no one but you could survive this kind of loss, seeing someone go, seeing them leave you behind; you don't want to go with them, you only don't want them to go.”