Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

I will be the one to leave you.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.