“That Woman is in love with her own grief.”
“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”
“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
“A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.”
“He was lying in bed with the woman he loved . . . a woman he couldn't make love to. He closed his eyes. More than anything in this world, he wanted this woman to be happy. He'd give her anything, do anything to make her happy. Even if it made his own life hell.”