He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.