“They were two superior eelsat the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”

“We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.”

“Two babbies shagging each other like they were the first two on earth to discover how 'twas done.”

“I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly”

“Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. ”

“The old poems said that lovers were made for each other. But that wasn't true for Kai and Elliot. They hadn't been made for each other at all—quite the opposite. But they'd grown together, the two of them, until they were like two trees from a single trunk, stronger together than either could have been alone.”