[...] that mysterious and terrible and well-known yearning of one human body for another [...]

[...] the strange way she had of kissing him, sometimes using her teeth, biting him as if to signify the sudden savagery of her love, her desire to completely possess him.

“There are some eyes that can eat you.”

“I have this horrible feeling that I’ll end up destroying some one”

You affect me in ways I can’t quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control. 

[…] in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness, the fullness […]

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.