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

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

Love me less, but love me for a long time

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you at the center. And I guess it daunted you that I had so many more friends than you, that I could put my words together like this, on paper, and could sometimes conjure a certain sense out of things. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.