No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.