I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth.

“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.”

“Come and kiss me and let’s forget.”

“I will surround you with a love too deep for words.”

“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”

“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”

“It had been a long day, and I don’t mind saying that I cried a little bit. There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.”

“You deserve good things and I want to be one of them.”

“I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

“It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.”

“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”

“But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. All my life long.”

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”