Keep Your Luck.

I have never more wanted to see you than I do now — just to sit and look at you,

Weißt du was, so schweig. Werde schon schweigen, wenn auch schamhalben bloß und um die Menschen zu schonen, aus sozialer Rücksicht.

So ließe sich der Möglichkeitssinn geradezu als die Fähigkeit definieren, alles, was ebensogut sein könnte, zu denken und das, was ist, nicht wichtiger zu nehmen als das, was nicht ist. (…) Solche Möglichkeitsmenschen leben, wie man sagt, in einem feineren Gespinst, in einem Gespinst von Dunst, Einbildung, Träumerei und Konjunktiven.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”

“…half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn’t any.”

“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”

“It’s not the future you’re afraid of. It’s repeating the past that makes you anxious.”

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

“All relationships have one law: never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you are there.”

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”

That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.

“It’s the good things that hurt when you’re missing them.”

“I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”

“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”

“…and we drink our coffee and pretend not to look at each other.”