“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”

“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”

“I can’t keep pretending that I don’t want this – that I don’t want you. I can’t. Not after what happened to you. It thought… I thought I’d lost you, Alex, forever. And I would’ve lost everything. You are my everything.”

“I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.”

“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”

“We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.”