“I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.”

“It's one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it's something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and grateful that we should get to experience such a thing in our lifetimes, and preserve its magic by doing the most responsible thing possible to keep it alive . . . Just keep saying yes.”

“There is a place for what my heart tells me about you, and there is no shame or guilt in it. God Himself is free to look in my heart right this instant and I know He would not shame or admonish me about what He would see there because the pure, ego-less truth of how I hold you in my heart deserves to be kept alive.”

“Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.”

“I'd rather be alone and lonely than have a bitch by my side and still feel lonely..”

“We are all acting on stage and the world is our audience.”

“E poi, il tempo, signore iddio, il tempo: tutto quel tempo che andava sprecandosi continuamente nel mondo senza che nessuno potesse farci niente.”