I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2002) - ISBN: 9780743439848