“I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone.”

“Don't tell me I didn't love him, don't...just don't act like you know what it feels like to lose someone who left without a goodbye. Someone who you spent your days praying to make him smile and then he just leaves, he leaves without a goodbye...”

“I didn't tell Ôtani I love him because I want to make out with him.I just love him, that's all.And I want to be with him all the time, even if we're just goofing around and hanging out like we always are.”

“I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.”

“I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.”

“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”