If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.