“I didnt fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.”

“You didnt understand the poem, but that was because it wasnt for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.”

“Theyre scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile.”

“We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.”

“Making love with strangers is how you get hurt.”

“If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.”

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”

“Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting ...”

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

“My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different...”

“We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”

“We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”