Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.