Nothing Is As Bleak As The Future,

Can't You See? Every Step I Have Taken, Since I Was That Child On The Bridge, Has Been To Bring Myself Closer To You.

At That Moment, Beauty Itself Struck Me As A Kind Of Painful Melancholy.

He Was Like A Song I'd Heard Once In Fragments But Had Been Singing In My Mind Ever Since.

In The Instant Before The Door Opened, I Could Almost Sense My Life Expanding Just Like A River Whose Waters Have Begun To Swell; For I Had Never Before Taken Such A Drastic Step To Change The Course Of My Own Future. I Was Like A Child Tiptoeing Along A Precipice Overlooking The Sea. And Yet Somehow I Hadn't Imagined A Great Wave Might Come And Strike Me There, And Wash Everything Away.

A Memoir Provides A Record Not So Much Of The Memoirist As Of The Memoirist's World.