“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”

“We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.”

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”

“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”

“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.”

“We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.”

“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”