With a little effort, she could get up by herself

In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.