Alessia

“I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be home-sick for you even in heaven”
― Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

“Yet there are so many things that fill my life: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact, it seems to me as if that alienation which for so long divided me from the world has become transferred into my inner world and has revealed to me an unsuspected unfamiliarity with myself.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in you eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.”
― Joan Didion

“Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I'll have at least that.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon