“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you.”

“The hardest thing to do when you go back underwater, is talk about what the sky was like.”

“I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

“I’m so eager to see you again, but I wouldn’t ask to see you. Not because I’m proud. In fact, in front of you, I cede all my pride. Yet only if you asked to see me, our meeting would be meaningful to me.”

“But my heart it is brighter Than all of the many Stars in the sky”

“This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“Keep on dreaming, don’t stop breathing, fight those demons.”

“I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”

“I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself.”

“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.”

“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.”

“Despite all the labels, in most ways I’m really not different from anyone else.”

“Come over and teach me the art of leaving without having to leave parts of myself behind. Come and help me master the ways of letting go without ever dying night after night when every soul is fast asleep. Come over, and teach me the art of saying goodbye.”

“You can’t just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can’t plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”