“Real love, even in moments, is worth more than any of us can say.”
“I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.”
“We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as strangers-for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.”
“...he says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.”
“Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.”
“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”