“Sooner or later, clockwork requires each piece to accept its nature or break. Hearts are no different.”

“Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.”

“They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other”

“...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...”

“Sooner or later the let-loose sidewalk pups will cross the streets. Running, they will run into each other. And sooner or later, as surely as noses drip downward, it will no longer be enough to merely run. They must run against something. Against each other. It is in their instinct.”

“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.”