“My love for him was -- Tyranny.”

“Love destroys. Thought creates.”

“It seems the loneliest place in the world for something so lovely.”

“Catching my breath. I watch them go. I watch them disregard gravity, the ground, and the distance between us. And though an old feeling, one of the wings, haunts my shoulder blades, I stay pinned to the window. I’ve learned that I cannot go with them”

“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”

“I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.”

“Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.”