“I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.”

“I love you,' Marius whispered suddenly, passionately as a mortal man might. 'I have always loved you. I wish that I could believe in anything other than love at this moment; but I can’t.”

“I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.”

“I also knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that I could never walk away. I needed him. I love him. More than I ever imagined I could love another person. And, apart from that love, nothing else mattered.”

“And I knew Nick’s love for Auntie Reba.He loved her in a way that was indescribable.It wasn’t like she walked on water or was the earth and moon and stars.It was different.It was breath.It was necessity.”

“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”