Jaiden

“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque...

My mother stands there at the living room door with her arms by her sides. And I think that there's violence in that too - in her inability to reach out to me, to make the gesture which is impossible and so forever suspended.”
― Delphine de Vigan, No and Me

“We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers