“Things couldn't end if she didn't let them begin.”

“I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.”

“I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't... don't want to be the one left behind.”

“I just didn't think you actually had to die to live forever.”

“Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.”

“But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.”

“Yes, because when I've forgotten everything else, I'll feel that ache... that tightness in my throat... that heaviness in my chest... and know that I loved a woman once and she loved me back. It's proof that I existed and so did she.”