“Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was loved in return ever feel saved?”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

“Love was certainly not safe - not ever.”

“And the thing about love," Wally said to Angel, "is that you can’t force anyone. It’s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can’t interfere with people you love any more than you’re supposed interfere with people you don’t even know. And that’s hard,” he added, “because you often feel like interfering - you want to be the one who makes the plans.“It’s hard to want to protect someone else, and not be able to,” Angel pointed out.“You can’t protect people, kiddo,” Wally said. “All you can do is love them.”

“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”

“But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.”

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”