Yan Lin

“We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Tent

“Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Tent

“And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers”
― Margaret Atwood

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein