“Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I'll never let you leave me?”

“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

“Youre insane, I told him, and stood up to dress.He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, Insane for you, my love.”

“He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each others suffering, and wedidnt now.”

“I loved your eyes first, I told him , repeating his words from a few weeks ago back to him, because it was true, and because we were two halves of a wholewe had been all along, and hed been so clev...”

“I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches”

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“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...”

“Fall, sweetheart. I'll catch you.”

“You don't appreciate the things that come easy. The things we fight for are the things we keep with us forever.”

“He leaned in close and spoke low. "Wow, I don't know what the hell I did to put that look on your face, but you need to write it down so I can commit it to memory.”