I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.