A lack of self-confidence is a devastating virus. There’s no cure.

But how do I explain that I’m freezing to death if I’m not seen by you?

“If I live until I’m eighty, it won’t matter, because this is my now forever.”

Tomas Transtromer: “Don’t be ashamed to be a human being—be proud! Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly. You’ll never be complete, and that’s as it should be.”

Getting stabbed with a knife is a trauma for the whole body, his leg was probably the part that healed quickest, it was other parts of Ted that were limping.

My mother and my father, who always made sure I had books in my hands and food on my table.

“There’s nothing like the sea. Now your skin knows that. Now it’s going to miss it, always,” he promises.

Children aren’t responsible for their parents’ happiness, but they still try.

“I could never have lived there on my own. I would have frozen to death in that apartment without his eyes on me.”