“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”

“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”

“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”

“It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”

“Why is love intensified by absence?”

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you th...”