“I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.”

“But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he'd do anything to protect her. That's how much Tod loved Addy.That's how much I wanted Nash to love me.”

“Certainly a man can be destroyed by the love of a woman, of this much I'm sure. But do you really believe a man can be saved by this love?”

“When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.”

“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”

“When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.”