“Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.”

“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.”

“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”

“She told me that while my father’s body might be crushed under tons of black earth, the body is nothing but camouflage. She whispered that every soul is a river trying to find its way back to the sea.”

“I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.”

“In that moment of recognition he is not consumed by a rushing sensation of love-quite simply a door opens to a room that has never gone away. The years apart were just years without one another.”

“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”