“I do love you and what else matters but that”

“Fuck Lara, fuck Jake because I do, Alaska Young, I do love you and what else matters but that.”

“If there’s one thing I know, it’s that there’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

“There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

“But you have to be careful which metaphor you use, because it matters... The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I mean?”

“It's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love no matter what.”

“I thought it might be a fine time to say the Three Little Words. And I steeled myself to say them as I stared up at that starriest night, convinced myself that she felt it, too, that her hand so alive and vivid against my leg was more than playful, and fuck Lara and fuck Jake because I do, Alaska Young, I do love you and what else matters but that and my lips parted to speak and before I could even begin to breathe out the words, she said, “It’s not life or death, the labyrinth.”