He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.