- “Do people remember the exact moment they fall in love?”
- “Then she laughed, and I wonder if this—finally, someone you can laugh with when everything hurts—was the stuff happily-ever-afters were made of.”
- “But all of that goes out the window in this moment when I realize that I not only love Yasmen, but I want to love her for the rest of my life.”
- “I’m sure of you.” “I trace the silky, dark arch of her eyebrow.” “Are you sure of me?”
- “The kiss is hot and sweet and ravenous.” “These, this must be how forever tastes. I’m sure of it.”
- “And it all hurt, including being with the man I’d loved more than everything.” “Pretty after how we loved each other, the way we hurt each other was destroying us.”
- “I have to share with them all the ways life pops the seams on a world perfectly sewn together.”
- “I see the power in choosing your own more.”
- “The only thing we never anticipated was losing each other in the process of gaining everything else.”
- “No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did.”
- “My eyes wander to the king-size bed where, before everything went wrong, we did it so right.”
- “Because she was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
- “Two shipwrecked souls, unable to figure out how to save each other. Both sinking.”
- “It was messy and hot, and it felt like the movies when two people who belong together find each other and collide.” “They combust.” “They stare at one another in awe because what are the odds that you find this ever in a lifetime?”
- “We just don’t really believe in it as an institution,” Ken adds. “But we believe in each other forever. We made a life together on our own terms.”
- “It’s a debilitating disease, and things will only get worse.” “I’m not sure which part is harder: losing her or watching her lose me.”
- “It begins with a tremor, a realization that love happens in the fragile context of our mortality.” “That love and life occur just beyond the reach of our control.”
- “Somehow healed wrong, and I started measuring how much I loved people in terms of how much it would hurt to lose them.”
