It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into another person at such a velocity as to fuse with him.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.