“You’re the first person I’ve truly wanted to know. I want to know everything about you. Every dream. Every nightmare. Every success. Every failure. And it’s not just that I never expected to feel like that about a woman, it’s that I never thought it was my lot in life to feel this at all. I think I convinced myself that to be truly great at finding love for others I’d have to settle for something mediocre myself. Something adequate that wouldn’t take my attention away from my work. And if not that, then . . . nothing at all.”
