“Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.”

“This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.”

“His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.”

“If it must be done, it's best done bravely.”

“Maybe thats what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.”

“This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.”

“I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“[The moon] ... is an example of practiced stability it wanes when it must, and reliably returns to full strength it is a humble model of reasonable potential that I can emulate, and follow.”

“I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and h...”

“I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars”