“She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.”

“How can you lose me? Youve owned me from the first moment I saw you.”

“Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.”

“He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes love.”

“Half naked, he drank her in with his eyes, imprinting this moment into his mind. This, he would take to his death the woman that stirred him to life.”

“...youd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”

“Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.”

“You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.”

“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.”

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging...”

“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someo...”

“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and se...”

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we...”

“love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but e...”

“A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.”