“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

“We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.”

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”

“We [ Picasso and Braque], were living in Montmartre, we saw each other every day.... We were like two mountaineers roped together.”

“I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.”

“The two of us haven't seen each other for a year now, and when we saw each other we bowed in front of each other. This very idea of bowing — you don't bow in front of a screen. It's made impossible, or very difficult, for people who constantly see non-persons on the screen.”

“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”

“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”