"There must be some people for whom difficult behaviour wasn't a reason to end their relationship with you. if they liked you...they were prepared to maintain contact, even if you were sad, upset or behaving in very challenging ways."

"Jane Eyre. A strange child, difficult to love. A lonely, only child."

"I have yet to find a genre of music I enjoy; it’s basically audible physics, waves and energized particles, and, like most sane people, I have no interest in physics."

"She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did."

"En el corazón tengo cicatrices igual de gruesas y feas que las de la cara. Sé que están ahí. Pero espero que quede algo de tejido sano, un pequeño retal por el que pueda entrar el amor y colarse dentro. Ojalá."

"Sul mio cuore ci sono cicatrici altrettanto spesse e deturpanti di quelle che ho in viso. So che ci sono. Spero che resti un po’ di tessuto integro, una chiazza attraverso la quale l’amore possa penetrare e defluire. Lo spero."

"The lights were bright on him, and I was in darkness. But he would see me, nonetheless. If it was meant to be, and surely it was, then he would see me, the way I’d seen him, all those weeks ago."