Mercy

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche