"It’s a promise, and a cry, and a prayer.It’s unfair to ask him. Selfish.But maybe I’ve earned a little of that, at the end of all things."

"My heart. You're my heart, more than the one in my chest."

"Before now, I never knew an embrace between two people could feel like one trembling body, one trembling heart, one person made from two, made from nothing, made from chance and choice and love"