Xana

“Some people love their story that much even if it's of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don't know how to stop telling it. Maybe it's about loving coherence more than comfort, but it might also be about fear—you have to die a little to be reborn, and death comes first, the death of a story, a familiar version of yourself”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby