“How could you be heartbroken and happy at the same time?”

“The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?”

“How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?”

“how can you be true and
kind at the same
time?

how?”

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”

“It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.”

“He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.”

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

“How many times have you sat across from me?
And how many times have you told me you were leaving?
I'm not trying to listen cuz it's all the same.
And why, why are you constantly believing
That I, I could ever give you what you needed?
Baby, baby please don't put your faith in me.”

“How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”