“Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.”

“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”

“No matter how long I live, I will always remember the way the light went out of her eyes, like a candle flame caught in an unexpected wind.”

“We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.”

“I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this.I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive.Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.”

“remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.”

“How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”