“Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.”

“The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”

“A man touched me:his hand... my thigh.I touched him too:my fist... his jaw.”

“If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”

“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I dont think being sad is to be avoided. Its apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But f...”

“If onlythe saddest words in the English language.”

“If only I knew... If only baby... If only...”

“If only…the saddest words in the English language.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”