If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.