“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.”

“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”

“It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.”