“For what is love but a great rebellion against caution and sense?”

“Canada is lovely," she breathed against his lips. "And you are lovely."His laughter ghosted into her mouth. "That's my line, Lyd. You are supposed to think me handsome”

“If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.”

“It means that you are my freedom, love.""Yes," she whispered. That was it exactly. "And you are mine.”

“In love my temperament found a new taste for life: it found a cure for the pain, and a pain without cure.'" –Ghalib”

“Was not love a terrible thing? One thought one had learned to manage it, and then it sprang free again, rattling its claws in one's liver.”

“She had always loved him, after all. And perhaps he knew it. Perhaps he saw more than she had suspected. And despite it, he did not look away.”