“The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me”

“The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me”

“A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen”

“Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.”