“Dammit. I think Im in like with the naked man I met today.”

“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”

“Eventually, Ill grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girlwho even when in the presence of company, still feels the loneliness that looms over her heart.”

“May I collect you, Rini? he said, softly pulling our lips apart. As mine?”

“You broke her heart in personyou fix it in person!”

“Dammit. I think I’m in like with the naked man I met today.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”

“Thats love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”

“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'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”