“come back, come back to me”

“It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.”

“The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.It was difficult to come back.”

“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”

“I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.”

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”

“I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.”