Leo
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
The debt you carry that has nothing to do with money is the one where someone gave you their time, their attention, their willingness to listen when you needed it most. You remember the exact moment they offered it, and you remember accepting it without thinking about what it would mean to owe something that cannot be repaid in dollars. Now when you see their name in your phone, there is a small weight that sits alongside the warmth. The discomfort is not in owing them something but in realizing that what you owe cannot be measured, cannot be settled, and changes shape every time you try to name it.