Just seeing other people, people getting on with their normal lives, is such a hard thing after you've lost someone so close to you.

By the day's end I realized that there were a zillion ways to apologize to someone, but none of them mattered if you never opened your mouth.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light!

L: Yes,that would be dark.

Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you.

The resolve rising in her soul to die with me drew me I cannot tell you how powerfully, irresistibly to her bosom. Do you remember that I often asked you would you die with me? — But you always said no — A whirlpool of never before experienced happiness has seized hold of me and I cannot deny that her grave is dearer to me than the beds of all the empresses in the world. — Oh, my dear friend, may God soon call you to that better world where we shall all with the love of the angels embrace one another again.
— Adieu.