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The concept of justice he had evolved as a result of these experiences was not retributive but the reverse. He had tried to develop his own capacity for forgiveness in order to be free.

I said a lot of people spent their lives trying to make things last as a way of avoiding asking themselves whether those things were what they really wanted. And maybe people run marathons to exercise their fantasties of running away.

Loneliness, she said, is when nothing will stick to you, when nothing will thrive around you, when you start to think that you kill things just by being there.

It's funny, how when parents do things to their children, it's as if they think no one can see them. It's as if the child is an extension of them: when they talk to it, they're talking to themselves; when they love it, they're loving themselves; when they hate it, it's their own self they're hating. You never know what's coming next, because it's coming out of them not you, even if they blame it on you afterwards.

We examine least what has formed us the most, and instead find ourselves driven blindly to re-enact it. Maybe it is only in our injuries that the future can take root.