“He loved but he did not know how to be loved.”
“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?”
“Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was loved in return ever feel saved?”
“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”
“He did not know what it was like to be two women in love.”
“I did not need to know if he could love me.I needed to know if he could need me.”