“I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.”

“You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.”

“I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what Ishould have given her was a real journey on earth.”

“ I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands.”

“My handicap will be a weapon of seduction? Do you really think so?”

“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”

“I feel as disappointed as if I'd just opened a parcel full of ghosts.”