"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."
"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once."
"Some tourists think that [Amsterdam] is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."
"People always get used to beauty, though."
"Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life."
"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"You say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it."
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
"You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."
"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."
"...that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
"The marks humans leave are too often scars."
"My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations."
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."
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