“A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?”

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

“This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.”

“We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.”

“I dont think any kind of love is without some kind of hurt along the way. It's how we get to know each other better, how we decide what's for real...what's the eternal stuff, what is going to push us closer together and seal the bond between us.”

“I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”