Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

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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 dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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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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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

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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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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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

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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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