“You know what Adage means?"She asked me.I shook my head no."It's a beautiful word," she said."People will tell you it means the purest love in the world, or love that consumes you, but I know what it really mean. It means love beyond reason, and that is the best love in the world.”

“They call it love," said Vernon. "I don't know what they mean by it. What do you mean [by love]?""I don't exactly know," said Temple slowly. "I suppose it's wanting to be with a person, and thinking about nothing else. And thinking they're the most beautiful and all that. And going over everything that they've ever said to you, and wanting— Well, I suppose if it's really love you want to marry them.”

“You know what love means? It means loving the person you are now and not the person you want someone to be or the person they will be.”

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

“And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”