“The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.”

“You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.”

“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.”

“I don't know when the boysbegan to walk away with parts of myselfin their sticky hands; when lovingbecame a process of subtraction. Or why,having given up what seems so much,I'm willing to lose even more — erasingall this body's known, relearning it with you.”

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”

“...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...”