“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”

“When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”

“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.”

“There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.”

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”

“This is me, Ana. All of me...and I'm all yours. What do I have to do to make you realize that? To make you see that I want you any way I can get you. That I love you.”