Cloudy Sonia

“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”
― Anne Sexton

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
― Walt Whitman

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
― Marcel Proust