“I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.”
“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”
“Since I am determined to join myself to God, I find that I am also bound to be the enemy of his enemies. And since I find nothing that is more his enemy than the self that is me, I am constrained to hate this part of me more than any other.”
“This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.”
“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”