Mae

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“I didn’t know then that some people die long before their real death. Nor did I imagine that the last time you saw them might also be the last time they were truly alive.”
― Magda Szabó, Katalin Street

“To visit planet earth you will have to be born as a human child.

At first you will have to learn to use your new body , to move your arms and legs, and to pull yourself upright.

You will learn to run, to use your hands, to make sounds and form words.

Slowly you will learn to take care of yourself.

There will be so much for you to learn and so much for you to feel - pleasure and fear , joy and disappointment , sadness and wonder.

You will grow up, travel , and work. Perhaps you will have children , even grandchildren , of your own.

Over the years you will try to make sense of that happy , sad ,full ,empty , always-shifting life you are in.

And when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.”
― Claire A. Nivola (Author)

“Now I think—and of course I could be wrong—that what upset me was that I’d just realized that my mother and I were separate people. We didn’t share the same dreams or nightmares. I was alone in the universe, like everybody else. In some confused way, that was what the doll had been telling me. Once it had loved me enough to let me eat its nose; now it would make me wake up screaming.”
― Lisa Tuttle, My Death