He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.