And who am I to blow against the wind?

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.