“But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.”

“People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.”

“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.”

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!”

“But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.”

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”