With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.