“Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.”

“And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too.”

“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”

“I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.”

“I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?'Almost.Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.”

“I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.”

“I love Cecily", "whether or not you believe it. Not in the same way I loved Rose, or you. But what should that matter? I've loved all my wives differently.”