“I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love”

“And though they may be miles apart and indeed have never met, yet they have never been separate, because they are lovers to the beginning and the end, appointed to each other by God’s prosperous love.”

“Even the few days I spend reminiscing in Mexico City seem like memories or dreams. Everything looks different and backward without [him] and his uncertainties. I could have even stayed at the same hotels, in the same rooms even, yet would have never known the difference. Traffic and weather seem painted onto this dull grey canvas of highway, detached from any near past. Nietzsche calls it the separation of body and soul - the improbability of two separate worlds. I was incapable of fitting in anywhere. I was in search of expiation. I would never find it - it had never been there.”

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

“Love will never separate a man from his personal legend”

“I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.”