“If she would give the world what it wanted, it would deify her.”

“...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.”

“She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.”

“And even if she could discern what future she wanted . . . How would she bear it if that future didn’t want her?”

“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss for me would have to imply my mother's deprivation or sacrifice. I don't think it would have occurred to her what a double emotion I felt, and indeed I know that it was being unfair to her, for what she said was simply the truth.”

“He wanted to do things to this woman. He wanted to make her feel the way a good boyfriend would – desired, wanted, craved. She deserved all that. He could give it to her now. He could give it to her for a week.”