“Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?”
“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.”
“when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.”
“Two could live as cheaply as one”
“If I could die saving two lives, I would, provided each of those two people were the kind of people who would die to save two more like them.”
“Soulmates. That was the word. Maggie could sense what it meant. Two people connected, bound to each other forever, soul to soul, in a way that even death couldn't break. Two souls that were destined for each other.”