How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst. Otherwise they, walking casually down the street towards you, almost about to wave, would leap over a wall and be gone for months.

she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.

Love is the use one makes of another.