“He was actually interested in things I had to say, something I'd never experienced before and made me feel extraordinarily special.”

“Then he made love to her not only as if he had never experienced lovemaking before, but no one had.”

“He had an extraordinarily casual air about him. I'd noticed that before, when he had tossed himself out the window.”

“He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before : the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair his days would never be the same again”

“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”

“It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.”