That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted,

That’s the worst thing about having a vivid imagination: it works in all directions.

Tomas Transtromer: “Don’t be ashamed to be a human being—be proud! Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly. You’ll never be complete, and that’s as it should be.”

In life we might be enemies, but when faced with death, we see the truth: we are one species, all we have is each other, and where you go, I shall follow.

But for Ted it’s impossible to come home now, he realizes, because home was the people.

“We are NOT the same age. We might have lived the same number of years, but we sure as hell aren’t the same age.

Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.

“I remember thinking that she was a perfect person. For a while. But then I saw her swim, and it passed. She used to swim like an octopus with a cramp…”

“Picasso said it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a whole lifetime to learn to paint like a child.”