“Ignore you, sweetheart? I think it would be easier to stop breathing."-Vasili”
“I love you so much, sweetheart. So much that sometimes I can't breathe. I can't think. You're all I've ever wanted, even before I knew I wanted it. I don't deserve you, Katherine.”
“The violin wasn't alive. It wasn't a baby or an animal, not living. But that would be easier to believe if I hadn't felt it breathe and sing.”
“I couldn’t stop staring. “Sweetheart,” he said, “is my slip showing or something?”
“Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.”
“Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.”