“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”

“We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...”

“I couldn’t explain my need to myself, and that’s why it was such a beautiful need”

“Why didn't he say goodbye?I gave myself a bruise.Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”

“I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

“It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.”

“I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time."Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated”