“Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.”
“You need anything else... You to touch me like I matter...”
“Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else.She made talent sound like a damned insult.”
“I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.”
“Some people spend their whole life trying to be liked by others. Some people spend their whole life hoping to be liked for not trying to be liked by others.”
“I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.”