Castles’s Reviews > The Possession > Status Update

For the first time, I could clearly perceive the material nature of feelings and emotions—I physically felt their consistency, their form but also their independence, their perfect freedom with respect to my consciousness. [...] I understood the necessity of comparisons and metaphors using water and fire. Even the most overused of them had first been lived, one day, by someone.

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city—the whole world—with a person you may never have met.