“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.”

“Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.”

“When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.”

“Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”

“. . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes.”

“We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.”

“I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.”