"She wants everything about him—physical, emotional, moral and verbal—she wants the work of art he has made of his own human being. And she wants it forever."
"His arm was around her so tightly that she could hear the beating of his heart."
"Your face shone
the first safe beacon I had ever seen.
I held on to that light
as a moth that knows night is coming
chooses to burn."
"I’ll be dead long before they grieve me."