“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance, my silver set and my eternal loss.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do.”— Sylvia Plath, poetryfoundation.org
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com