“Tell him that I loved the little boy in him, and that I loved the man in him. Tell him I loved his sad side, and his laughing side.”
“I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.”
“Tell him he was my greatest adventure. Tell him I love him.”
“I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.”
“Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.”
“Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”