“We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.”

“I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed”

“A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.”

“It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.”

“Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.”

“I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.”

“It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.”