I was more alone than if I had been alone.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

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.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

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

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.