“Perhaps... you love too fiercely.”

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

“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.”

“Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.”

“On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.Yet here we are.”

“I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.”

“I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.”