“When I'm with you and we're well together, there is nothing more I want. You make me like who I am, who I become when you're with me, Oliver. If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you.”
“Don't let him be someone else when he's away. Don't let him be someone I've never seen before. Don't let him have a life other than the life I know he has with us, with me.
Don't let me lose him.
I knew I had no hold on him, nothing to offer, nothing to lure him by.
I was nothing.”
“I was convinced that no one in the world wanted him physically as I did; nor was anyone willing to go the distance I was prepared to travel for him. No one had no one studied every bone in his body, ankles, knees, wrists, fingers, and toes, no one lusted after every ripple of muscle.“