“I love you, I love you, I love you.”

“You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like thatperson matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.”

“Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry."I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion."I love you!" Silas cried, as he followed.They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees.”

“I've fallen in love with you," he whispered to kiss the top of my hand.”

“I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.”

“You do anything for the person you love,” she said finally. "And then when you don’t think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to.”

“I loved every part of him. The smell of his skin, the scar on his cheek, the feel of his fingers pressing into my back. The way he could tell what I was thinking just by looking at me.”