She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
The more you love someone,he came to think,the harder it is to tell them.It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to sayI love you.
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Extremism is the enemy of love and of love's subtlety. It does not understand the loveliness of silence.
