Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.