“You were perfect – perfect for me – and I love you”

“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long. ”

“There is no perfect moment to say I love you because when you feel the urge to say the words of love then you are already in the perfect moment.”

“So there are two you's, the one you create by loving and the one the beloved creates by loving you. The farther those two you's are apart the more the world grinds and grudges on its axis. But if you loved and were loved perfectly then there wouldn't be any difference between the two you's or any distance between them. They would coincide perfectly, there would be perfect focus, as when a stereoscope gets the twin images on the card into perfect alignment.”

“Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.”

“I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I'd do it. Love makes you stupid”