“It wasn't the disappearance of happiness so much as the appearance of sadness.”

“I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!”

“And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.”

“You know, people thought it was so sad that I gave up so much to take care of Emmy, but it wasn't sad. It was love, it was life.”

“If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.”

“why is it that happiness can disappear in an instant but sadness stays around forever?”

“Maybe I wasn't happy, but I wasn't sad. I was just . . . there.”