“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”

“We tend to make up the people we fall in love with”

“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”

“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”

“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.”

“He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her. She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.”