"reality is in the enduring eyes, the unspoken dreadful accusation in the enduring eyes of a worn young woman who looks at you, and hopes for nothing."
"only a woman of pride, complexity and emotional tension is genuinely worthy of the act of love, and there are two ways to get yourself one of them. either you lie and stain the relationship with your guile, or you accept the involvement, the emotional responsibility, the permanence she must by nature crave. i love you can be said only two ways."