Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

I saw . . . what I've really know all along, that you are my truth. For me you are the way the truth and the life. Only here can I be totally myself.

Their hands touched, their knees touched. They were both trembling.

I'm falling in love with you again, most terribly in love.""I've never been out of love with you, never for a second.

There's no point in talking it over. It would only make things worse. There's nothing to say. I just love you. That's all of it.""That's half of it," said Ducane. "Possibly over dinner I might tell you the other half.

I think we belong to each other.

He wanted to take her in his arms, he wanted to be utterly revealed to her, he wanted her to understand.

He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, 'another place'.

And even in those seconds, and even as I wondered with anguish whether I would ever see her again, I lived with her in some angelic timeless world of quiet communication and absolute understanding.