“Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.”

“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”

“No human had ever seen an adult giant squid alive, and though they had eyes as big as apples to scope the dark of the ocean, theirs was a solitude so profound they might never encounter another of their tribe...Could fulfilment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfilment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.”

“Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.”

“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.”

“The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.”