"Maybe we're all full of an empty plain but then with every memorable moment, good and bad, there's another tree planted. Then another then another then another. And maybe we convince ourselves that, as we become increasingly tangled in the mass of trees and divots that are us, life is about looking for the clearing, the bit where all of it breaks. But maybe that's the secret. Maybe the secret is that it never breaks. Not really. It never breaks, and the only think that's really gratifying is pressing the bark against your face and delighting in the thought that this is me, and this is real, and this is true. Just lying down in the undergrowth, in a wood made of all of you, of every joy and every terror, and saying this is me, and this, and this. The difference between feeling lost and feeling fine isn't a change in circumstances, it's a change in behavior."
- "The Things We Don't See", Savannah Brown
