“It's hard to force someone to love you. And it's even harder to force yourself to stop loving someone.”
“The funniest people are the saddest ones.”
“The truth may be sad, but it is better than a lie.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
“Johnny's life passed him by, like a warm summer day, If you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play.”
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it, one gets through many a dark night.”
“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“We are the dead. Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved and were loved, and now we lie, in Flanders fields.”
“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”