“Most of the time the universe speaks to us very quietly in pockets of silence, in coincidences, in nature, in forgotten memories, in the shape of clouds, in moments of solitude, in small tugs at our hearts.”

— Yumi Sakugawa

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

— C. G. Jung, from Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Pantheon, 1963)

“How vulnerable we would all be if longing shone through our bodies, if our skins were translucent lanterns flushed with yellow flame leaping in the strange and unpredictable winds of our desire, like the neon Morse code fireflies use to brazenly flick the night.”

— Lee Ann Roripaugh, section 3 “Lumen” from “Bioluminescence,” in On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009)

“Colour is like a material to us. You can take the same form, and by changing the colour, you change the object; it can be very young and playful, or very elegant and sophisticated.”

— Hannes van Severen

"Two people were struggling within me; one who wants to go and one who is afraid to go - both just parts of me, both undoubtedly scoundrels. I got up the next morning like I did in my worst times."

— Franz Kafka, from Letter to Milena

"[...] she is the moon, she acts like the moon. She always disappears for a certain amount of time and has to be pursued and found by her true lover, as the day meets the night at dawn, just for a kiss, in order to separate again."

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Vol.1 (1931-1934)