“Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.”

“There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...”

“Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches.Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt.He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds.I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.”

“Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.”

“We all try. And try as we might to control things, sometimes bad things get in and it's not our fault.”

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”