Book: Jungle inside you

- Because you are looking. You should just go and enjoy the journey.

He flared up to me with such heat that he fired on himself a cold. So I remained sitting in my tower, trembling with fear that I might hurt him.

On the way I started to meet men. I stopped to chat with everyone. At first I looked at them, and then I looked into myself, as in the forest, when I ate an unknown berry and waited to see if it would poison me or not.

I drowned in the quagmire and pulled myself out of the quagmire. I watched the beast in order to understand which berries it is better not to touch, and which ones you can eat. I ate something unknown and listened to my body: will I survive or not? At such moments, every heartbeat was like a thunderclap. I survived and moved on. I was scared and lonely at night. There was no one to console me - I consoled myself. I wanted to scream from the cold and from pain - and I screamed. Then she hugged herself, curled up in a ball in the moss.

I walked at random - only years later I realized that this was the right path.

When I looked back, my pace slowed down. Then I decided to look only forward in order to go faster.

- He will appear and become like a native. Straightaway. Everything will be easy with him. You will not need to bend over to him, you will not need to reach for him. Your stride will be toe-to-toe. Not behind, not in front - he will be the same as you. Same. Both near and far you will see the same thing. If he gets hurt, you go limp. He will grab your chest if your heart hurts. You will alternate between strength and weakness. With the very first kiss, you will merge into a single whole and understand that it is no longer possible for you individually. Then you will grow together and you will live one common life. You will start to move around the world faster. You will begin to nourish great designs, possess untold power. Go, daughter, do not waste time. Do not tie yourself tightly to anyone until you meet such. No matter how much it takes - wait, and he will appear on your road. And if you hurry and associate yourself with the wrong one, you will forever lose the gift prepared for you.

- Yes. Who wants to find, must look, daughter.

To find a person exactly your size, you need to leave home and go to unfamiliar lands, start wandering and carefully, - the old woman raised her finger, - carefully scrutinize everyone along the way.

Rarely does anyone meet their true half. This is how the cunning gods conceived at a time when the sand of our desert was still a mountain on another continent.

For your children to be great, you must find someone who is your equal.

There was exactly as much space in those houses as a person needed - no more, no less; that is why every inhabitant of such a house was happy.

The simple life makes the spirit soft. Only trials give strength.

I was born on the driest land in the world, where the only dripping water is tears. Birds do not live in our desert. Animals bypass this place. Snakes do not crawl, spiders do not weave webs. Only we, people, invincible creatures, built our dwellings there.