But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.