"The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I w…"

"As much as I love her, I admit that she has always remained somewhat of an enigma to me...I liked this about her. I l…"

"His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life."

"As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled wit…"

"While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservatio…"

"It was the way you looked at me while I looked at the art that changed me. It is you, in other words, who changed."

"...I said everything that matters... Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, h…"

"I sometimes think to myself that I’m the last of my kind."

"What's your horse's name?""Horse.""Sophia waited for the joke, but it didn't come. "You call your horse 'Horse'?""He …"

"In this world, after all, I've become more or less invisible...I've become what the young are afraid of becoming, jus…"