“Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.”

“Choices are powerful things. In fact, theyre more powerful than most things.”

“Without stories, wed have even more trouble recognizing whats real.”

“All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.”

“There are no miracles on Mondays.”

“The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you dont know you have.”

“I wish my whispers are heard and requited as a storm... Because, the storm is that keeps me alive!”

“To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.”

“I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.”

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“Say youll marry me when I come back or, before God, I wont go. Ill stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so youll have...”

“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”

“The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive ...”