“And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”

“I never thought she'd take up so much space in my heart…”

“…instead of fighting everything so much, you could just open your heart and see where it leads you.”

“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”

“Believe me, I had my share of "why" questions. I turned my eyes upward again and again, and in my heart I asked why I, an ordinary human, should be bearing such an extraordinary burden of pain and grief. Why I was the one picked to deal with such a tortuous twist of fate? It all seemed so unjust. I had reached a point where I had to get answers to some questions that were inside me. Shutting myself into the world of my heart and mind, I wondered, "Why? Why? Why?”

“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”