Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

"Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it."

"Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it."

"I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life."

"After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled."

"With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not."

"Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it."