“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”

“You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.”

“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”

“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”