“Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…”
“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?”
“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.”