It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

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

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.