Will you wait for me forever?

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

But the silence spoke volumes.

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.