04/08.

"Does she know you love her?"

"Of course." 
I paused. The obstacle seemed unreal to me.
"If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday."

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
 

- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

Alice came to a fork in the road.  
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
 

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland