Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

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Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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