“In life, you love the one whom you can never have.”

“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”

“why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?”

“You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—”

“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”

“Never live your life on the edge when you have loved ones who love you and who are depending on you.”