Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.