“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”

“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”

“It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”

“Its dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”

“Why is love intensified by absence?”

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think abo...”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”