“And for your troubles, you will have windows of love,” he says. “They will be brief and wonderful and rapturous; they will fill your heart until it bursts. You will feel a kinship like you’ve never known, and pain like you’ve never imagined, and each parting will tear the breath from your lungs and fill you with a longing that will never be quieted. Agony inseverable from ecstasy,” he says, “neither of which can ever be taken from you.”
