It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out. - Jonathan Safran Foer

It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.