When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

I feel that I an everything to her.

But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?