When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.

It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.