What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

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.