Sabbel

“I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.”
― Tanith Lee, Biting the Sun

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. That is, I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular...but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive. The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”
― Walt Whitman