“I would fight for him and against anyone who wouldn't. It wasn't complicated. In the beginning love never is.”

“Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving.”

“The thing is you have to fight the whole time. You can't stop. Otherwise you just end up somewhere, bobbing in the middle of a life you never wanted.”

“But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”

“Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.”

“Everything can change, but only with abandon.”

“Her heart leapt, which made no sense at all. This was not to be an affair of the heart. There would be affection certainly, but nothing more. Apparently her heart wasn't aware of her plans. Odd, she'd never known it to be rebellious before.”