← You have to understand that you can't eat everything at once, or give all the money in your pocket to the beggar, or run, run like the wind until you fall down on the ground, and you have to drink when you're hot and take a bath when it's too early or too late but never when you actually want to. 🔊✎
← Too late. This morning, when you met me, I'd just done it. 🔊✎
← all you need is a little nudge to set it going, anything will do, a glance at a girl you pass in the street who's lifting up her arms as you go by her, a feeling when you wake up in the morning that people aren't really treating you right, one question too many that you ask yourself late at night... 🔊✎
← You'll learn, you as well, too late, life is a book you love, it's a child playing at your feet, it's a tool that sits comfortably in your hand, it's a bench in front of your house where you rest in the evening. You'll despise me again, but discovering that, you'll see, is the silver lining of getting old; life is perhaps all the same just happiness. 🔊✎
← But if he has to keep paying interest to keep your happiness and your life, if Haemon no longer becomes pale when I become pale, if he no longer thinks I'm dead when I'm five minutes late, if he no longer feels alone in the world and hates me when I laugh and he doesn't know why, if he turns into Mr Haemon and learns to say "yes" like everyone else, then no, I don't love Haemon anymore. 🔊✎