“This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it.”

“Please don't forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.”

“We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.”

“I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.”

“Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.”

“That’s why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye — because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had.”