Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

Life: I'll never understand it.

Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.