‘We’ve run out of time but you know how much you mean to me, don’t you? I was lost until I found you, standing there with a book in your hand and smiling at me as though we’d known each other for years. We recognised each other straight away, didn’t we? I fell in love with you before you’d even said a word. You were my fixed point from that moment on, the centre of my world, and you always will be.’