1. The one I love is not a person, but a waiting.
2. Those who walk ahead must know when to turn back and go the other way.
3. Far more urgent than loving someone is being able to feel at ease with them.
4. When I wear your used clothes, I feel as though I'm holding you close.
5. : When do you feel most alone? : When you're beside me.
6. I am weary because I live alone. I live alone because I am weary.
7. : When I think of you, I mostly think of your body. Forgive me. : What's to forgive? Have I ever asked for forgiveness? I do the same! To both of us, each other's bodies are beautiful to think about.
8. : If I'd known you were this mad, I never would have spoken to you. : You would have, you would have! We were meant to talk. It would have happened even if we hadn't wanted it to.
9. All my life I've been anxious about the mistakes I might make. Yet none of the mistakes I actually made ever worried me.
10. Don't think about me so much all the time. It pains me to think you're suffering. Just be well. Then I'll be well too.
11. : Why can't you tolerate people? : Are people something to be tolerated?
12. : Have you ever killed anyone? : No. No one has ever loved me until now.
13. : What nonsense I've spoken to you! : Why worry? You said it to me! To me, after all, right?
14. However many times I try to move away, your face appears before my eyes.
15. If we ever meet somewhere, don't walk past me.
I didn't find you in this life— I don't want to try for greater punishment than that.
16. Forgetting you really wasn't easy.
...What am I babbling!
Forgetting you really isn't easy!
17. What do people think about, kneeling before a grave? How is it even possible for a person to suddenly just "not be"?
18. A little coffee, a little laughter, a little conversation...
Will there be time?
19. Don't try to take away my pain— if you do that, you'll take me away too.
Instead, learn to accept my pain; then accepting me will become easier.
20. When two people both love each other, yet cannot live together despite wanting to so much, that, truly, is what separation means.