Quotes from Alix Ohlin

As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?

Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture.

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.

I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.

But longing was part of life here, and it made him happy to feel his lack of these things, as sharp as hunger. He was addicted to want. He didn't know how this had happened, whether it was because of his childhood or some quirk of his personality or genes, but somehow he had become a person who needed to do without in order to appreciate what he had.

Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.

There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.