You said I was the most exotic flower

It’s the way he says my name: like music

“love does not mean spending the rest of your life with someone, get that idea out of your head; it’s destructive. love is an emotion, connected to every other emotion we feel. it’s why we hold on to memories and let people go.”

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”

“Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain and still succeed.”

I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know you ever lived without them.

In my head I know I’ve been in love before, but it doesn’t feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to f*ck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.