“we are all made from the stars and connected to each other and the stars”

“a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference”

“A moment of clarity I realise that I stress so much about the past, because I am scared of the future.It is easier for my mind to occupy itself with troubles of long-ago; rather than greet fears of...”

“Tears dont show in rain but you feel them”

“I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time."- Rose”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”