We live in a time where the world is a lonely place filled with empty people.

If everyone only had one true love in this world most of us would be lonely

Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.

If you leave every time something goes wrong, you're going to be a really lonely person.

Do you know what is the most frustrating thing in this world? It is not having someone to return to when you are tired, sad or lonely. Someone you could really trust, someone you could really talk to about anything and feel completely safe and understood, someone who really cares about you, fears for you and can’t rest without seeing you happy.

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.