“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls.”

“The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.”

“How funny we are, I thought, the way we dance about each other, each afraid of being hurt by the other.”

“We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him... Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean.”

“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”

“Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.”