“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”

“Sometimes the only path we can maneuver is from the bed to the bathroom. That’s okay. Let your journey be what it is . Just keep moving.”

“Don’t call it death; call it moving to Heaven.”

“It’s easier to die than to move … at least for the Other Side you don’t need trunks.”

“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one’s baptism on storm’s promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one’s foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water.”

“Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”

“I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”

“The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred.”

“Approaching new people, never being afraid to ask questions, clearly expressing emotions, moving, playing and laughing. There is a lot we can learn from our children.”

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”