“In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.”
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
“So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..”
“Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other?...In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love.”
“We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia”
“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.”