Ethan

“Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I feel . . . like sometimes I don't know myself. And it gets overwhelming, like I'm really not going to know myself--like I'm not going to even know my name, or where I live, or anything about myself, like my memory is suddenly going to go poof'...'It's never gotten to that point, obviously. But when I start thinking about it, I fear it could. Like one day the scales will tip . . . and that will be that.”
― Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Gaslight