“A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.”

“It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.”

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”

“And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again.”

“My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.”

“As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.”