- "Everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out."
- "Words never mean what we want them to mean."
- "What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
- "Songs are as sad as the listener."
- "I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
- "One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."
- "I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."
- "Why are you leaving me? / He wrote, I do not know how to live. / I do not know either but I am trying. / I do not know how to try. / There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me."
- "The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad."
- "Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
- "Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing."
- "What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?"
- "The end of the world has come often, and continues to come."
- "I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
- "It's not a horrible world, he told me, but it's filled with a lot of horrible people."
jan 15 2010 ∞
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