"It's hard for a man to ask a woman to marry him with an eight-foot wall of stakes and withy between them, especially if he happens to be dead at that time."
One fantastic result of graduating? I have learnt to love reading again. And I know I have a good book, when I forgo sleep and meal times just to finish reading the book in three days. As much as I hate cheesy love lines and romance chick flicks, I seem to see the beauty of them when in prose form.
"I've never thought of it like that," said Christopher. "How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you - because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?" His voice shook. "I can't talk about it. That's the way I feel."