All quotes from
Rebecca's book
Leave the door open
for the unknown, the door into the dark.
That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself
came from, and where you will go.
Socrates says you
can know the unknown because you remember it.
You already know what seems unknown; you have been here before, but only
when you were someone else.
We treat desire as a
problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something
and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire.
A person in her
twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that
portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller.
"The early
stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you never find is that mythical
creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for
those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists
almost entirely of decay". Pat Barker
A new map of the
city of Las Vegas appears every month, because the place grows so fast that
delivery people need constant updates on the streets.
