What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.