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

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

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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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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

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

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

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

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