“Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.”

“If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”

“You don't find strangers declaring themselves to you awkward?' But then she wouldn't, would she? People must fall in love with her hourly. She must keep a staff of translators to interpret the proposals of love and marriage.'It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying,' Roxane said.”

“...it was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected,”

“Marina Singh: "You went to Radcliffe."Annick Swenson: "I didn't love it.”

“As if music were a separate thing you could drive yourself into, make love to, fuck.”

“It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.”