“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

“The best way I can love you is by not losing myself in you, but growing with you.”

“Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.”

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”

“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.”

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“When you want to leave, leave. But don’t ever come back, be faithful to leaving, maybe we’ll also be faithful to forgetting you”

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

“Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.”

“We just got to accept that some people can only be in our hearts, not in our lives.”

“And in the silence I suddenly understood the many ways a person can die but still be alive.”

“How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.”

“I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.”