“I need to see you. I need to feel you. I want the routine with you and I want the madness with you. I want all of it with you. Feed the cats and get on the damn plane. I want you here with me.”

“I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know you ever lived without them.”

“If someone makes you feel, let them.”

“Whatever our souls are made of, her and mine are the same”

“—“That’s what bothers me most. I can’t endure seeing my suffering being reduced—being generalized—(à la Kierkegaard): it’s as if it were being stolen from me.”

“Your flaws are perfect for the heart that is meant to love you.”