An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.