"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."
"I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last."
"I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me."
"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."
"But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."