“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”

“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”

“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”

“When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”