Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

Will you wait for me forever?

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.