This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.

Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .

He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.

I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.