Status Updates From Moon Palace

«She's someone who follows her impulses, but those impulses are also a form of knowledge.»

«I was desperate for a certainty, and I was prepared to do anything to find it.»

«I had thought I was acting with courage, but it turned out that I was merely demonstrating the most abject form of cowardice: rejoicing in my contempt for the world, refusing to look things squarely in the face.»

«I had jumped off the edge, and then at the very last moment, something reached out and caught in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, the one thing powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.»

«I had jumped off the edge of a cliff, and then, just as I was about to hit bottom, an extraordinary event took place: I learned there were people who loved me. To be loved like that (...) does not lessen the terror is the fall, but it gives a new perspective on what that terror means.»

«I finally discovered for myself: the mind cannot win over matter, for once the mind is asked to do too much it quickly shows itself to be matter as well.»

«Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was I had merely found a different way of being young.»