It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.