It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

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.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

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

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

Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye

Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.

Don't waive your rights with your flags.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.