“He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.”

“’Better to have loved and lost,’ my ass.Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.”

“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”

“Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn’t fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.”

“I loved you at your worst, and you were always at your worst. Nothing could stop me. Not even you.”

“..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks’s “Landslide,” especially the lyric: “I’ve been afraid of changing, because I’ve built my life around you.” I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don’t cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.”

“You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.”

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”

“Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds–thousands–of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter”

“Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who’ve been hurt the most”

“It’s so touching to see so much regret in the eyes of people when they say. ‘I have no regrets in life”

“It’s one of the great fallacies, it seems to me,” said Lee, “that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.””And memory.””Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.”

“Some things in life you can’t get away from. You can’t outrun fate. Your feet can try but you’ll still be in the universe’s version of a hamster wheel. Running, but not getting anywhere.”

“We are all a little broken,Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime.& that’s okay!”

“In questo mondo non c’è posto per le cose tristi. Nessun posto.”