Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

---

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

---

What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

---

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

---

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

---

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

---

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

---

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

---

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

---

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

---