• I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.

    Rebecca Solnit: I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.
    Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.100, Canongate Books