" Yes, we do only have one life, so far as science and our registers of births and deaths go. Is it lived in places, to clock time or the sun and its seasons. And we live in bodies, with economic and political forces bearing down on us, always. No amount of self-sacrifice or selfishness lifts us completely clear. We are not, in this world, ever really free spirits.

But to keep living in it? Sometimes we have to see our worst hurts as little deaths, and believe in our ability to be reborn by them. "

― Tanya Shadrick , The Cure for Sleep