A tremendous rush ran through her body, as if every cell were electrified at once. She could taste his saliva and, as their tongues touched, she knew theyloved each other as much as they ever had, a wonderful love, beyond space and time, impossible and unbearable.

A tremendous rush ran through her body, as if every cell were electrified at once. She could taste his saliva and, as their tongues touched, she knew they loved each other as much as they ever had, a wonderful love, beyond space and time, impossible and unbearable.

That’s right, Lucy, that’s right,’ he said, overwhelmed by joy. 'There’s infinite hope, infinite hope, all the hope in the world. Evenfor us.

That’s right, Lucy, that’s right,’ he said, overwhelmed by joy. ‘There’s infinite hope, infinite hope, all the hope in the world. Even for us.

There’s only one difference between love and mental illness. Both are distorted versions of reality, except with mental illness you don’t have to fuck the thing making you ill. Love was something he’d come to regard as a branch of pathology.