“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

“My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.”

“She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time”

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

“It is almost impossible to make jealousy go away in the heart and mind. However, it can be postponed for a while.”

“In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away — of their corrosive function — just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.”

“The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word — like a lump of sugar in water.”

“Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.”

“Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.”

“In some way the material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told, dissolving into nothingness like a vision.”