“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”

“The whole world will smile at you when your heart is peaceful and your mind is clean. When you can smile at yourself, not a single trouble in the world will affect you. When you are sincere to yourself, no one in the world can deceive you.”

“When you smiled,
Everything in the room was shattered;
Only you remained whole
In frozen wonder, as though you stared
At your image in the broken mirror
Where it had always been silverly carried.”

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”

“DON'T SPEAK! See how fast I can get the smile off your face?”

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”

“You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

“How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?”