“And she knew for the first time that someone can wire your skin in a single evening, and that love arrives not by accumulating to a moment, like a drop of water focused on the tip of a branch - it is not the moment of bringing your whole life to another - but rather, it is everything you leave behind. At that moment. Even that night, the night he touched one inch of her in the dark, how simply Avery seemed to accept the facts - that they were on the edge of lifelong happiness and, therefore, inescapable sorrow. It was as if, long ago, a part of him had broken off inside, and now finally, he recognised the dangerous fragment that had been floating in his system, causing him intermittent pain over the years. As if he could now say of that ache: "Ah. It was you.” LovePain Book:The Winter Vault Source: The Winter Vault
“Was rescue always a kind of love? Peter didn't know, and he was tired now; he would leave it to Alan and his philosophers. But he did know, with certainty, that love was always a kind of rescue. Even when he had no tears left, he would have tears for Anna.” LoveGrief Book:Held Source: Held
“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.” IfsKnowsLoveWellsLooksSometimesObjectsLandscapeSomeone You LoveFugitive Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
“No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.” IfsLoveLongBornArmsLuckyTerrorTailsBrushesSkullsUnluckyLucky You Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
