“I didnt fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.”

“You didnt understand the poem, but that was because it wasnt for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.”

“Theyre scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile.”

“We live in a world of contrast and its sad we are among people who cant seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.”

“We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.”

“Making love with strangers is how you get hurt.”

“How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.”

“Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”