“Do you have any idea what it's been like?" he asks, getting more frustrated now in the face of my inarticulate fluster. "Every day, I woke up and wondered if that would be the day I'd see you again. And if I did, how would it go? I missed you, so much. I'm twenty nine, and I've never loved another woman." He stares at me, unblinking. "And every woman I've been with knows it, unfortunately for them.”
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“I can't live with my heart half-broken all the time”
“Love, considered as an animal appetite, cannot long feed on itself without expiring.”
“It occurs to me that hearts and souls and lives can themselves be sites of unimaginable suffering.”
“We were inseparable once. And today I hate even thinking about you.”
“Nobody's heart broke when we disappeared. We're easy to replace.”
“Jealousy still gave him a pang. The heart was a stupid thing.”
“I don't regret one moment of loving her, even though it still hurts that she's gone.”
“I would curl up and sleep until I was sure the thought could be wrapped up tight.”
“Sometimes I fall asleep to avoid the reality of what I am facing,”
“Tears of a lover are diamonds of divinity.”