Starting this relationship seems to me one of the better things you've ever done, however it ends.""We can't separate it from how it ends.

His sudden decision not to see her any more was utterly incomprehensible to the girl, it was a death sentence from a hidden authority for an unknown crime. Nothing had changed, and then there was suddenly this.

Bellamy thought, he is beginning to avoid me, my presence embarrasses him, my problems irritate him. I am becoming an unperson.

Don't be hurt by me.""I can't help being hurt —

He had lived throughout upon magic, upon romantic love in its fullest sense, and this magic, now that she was gone, seemed sometimes likely to kill him.

No! I can't leave him, I'm bound to him, I'm made of him, I am him!

Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.

He can do anything he likes and I'm so lonely, oh so lonely— And I put up with it because there was nothing else to do—

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.