“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”

“She's a woman in love
And he's gonna break her heart to pieces.
She don't want to see.
She's a woman in love, but it's not me.”

“She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”

“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”

“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”

“[Nelson, re. Annabelle] …"she wants what everybody wants. She wants love."”

“Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself”

“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”