Haven’t you heard? I’m a flightless bird.

“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”

“I’ve had friends that couldn’t be my lover. I’ve had lovers who couldn’t be my friend. I can’t wait for the day I find the person that is both.”

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”

“If this is the only life, then why am I not just doing everything I want to do?”

“Kindness is a form of intelligence.”

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

“Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people.”

“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”

“Do you think it’s possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?”