All in one

“Nobody wants to hear this, but sometimes the person you want most, is the person you’re best without.”

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.

“Feeling alone has nothing to do with how many people there are around you.”

“Why should I be sad? I have lost someone who didn’t love me. But they lost someone who loved them.”

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

Our souls held hands. There are your fingerprints all over my life.

“Am I lonely because no one cares, or am I lonely because I’m not strong enough to let anyone get close enough to care?”

“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story — not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”

“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”

“I think part of the reason why we hold on to something so tightly is because we fear something as great won’t happen twice.”