“The lights come on and my future returns in the glare.”

“I didn't make this plan. I just wake up sometimes and want to crawl out of my life.”

“I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die. ”

“The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.”

“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”

“Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.”

“You're good for me," I say. "The light to my shade.""Then you're the night to my day. A person needs both, you know.”