“Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.”

“But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.”

“I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.”

“Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.”

“Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?”

“Was there to be some healing after all?Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.”

“And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language”