“That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.”

“…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…”

“We find that one person in life that will stand by us through everything, support us, love us regardless of yourself. That one person that will stand by your side through everything. Grab onto that person with everything for if you don't then one day you will look to your side expecting him to be there and you will find that he is not. So don't take the one for granted that makes you his life. If you do then he will remove you from his...”

“Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not protected herself more carefully against a world of threat.”

“What you told me was that the love of beauty is like a sickness, as all the devouring love inside a person. I stood there right in front of you and ate one of the crayons you had handed me. For when you love you do not care.”

“There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.”