I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

This is what greed does to humans, Abel thinks. It makes them ignore the love they have in favor of what they can never attain.

Because of you, I've had adventures on every world of the loop. I've made my first real friends. I broke free from Mansfield, and I found out what it would mean to love someone. Because of you, I've been truly alive. And now that I've lived, I can be ready to die for something I believe in and the person I love.

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

Faith and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate.

Listen to me. When a physicist starts talking about souls, we are officially off the map.

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

I fell in love with his unchanging soul.

That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.""You saw your parents at the best," Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss. "Go ahead," Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws.