Margaux

“Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss,
I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
An unknown sphere more real than I dream’d, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
Remember my words, I may again return,
I love you, I depart from materials,
I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“She fell into an agitated reverie. I felt her pulling away from the moment as the tide pulls from the shore - I mean I could feel the suck of it as her attention retreated to some inaccessible socket of "elsewhere".”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“I understood that one's environment is a key to one's identity”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris