There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me. - Jonathan Safran Foer

[Having learned that Saul had ordered fasting until evening] But Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Look now, how my countenance has brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now would there not have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?”

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.