How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"If he has love, he will feel he can go on. Without it, I would have sunk many times over." (15.91)
Lou doesn't realize how powerful love is until she spends time on an online forum for people with spinal injuries and receives this response. Sadly for her, however, things aren't always so simple.
Quote #8
"Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning." (18.204)
We're storing this away for our next opening salvo on Tinder. Jokes aside, Will probably hasn't felt this way about anyone in a long time. It has a profound effect on his sense of well-being.
Quote #9
I did the only thing I could think of. I leaned forward, and I placed my lips on his. [...] And just for a moment I forgot everything (23.126)
Lou and Will's first kiss is magical but fleeting. Will pulls back because it causes him too much pain to be physically intimate with the woman he loves—it just reminds him of all of the things that they won't be able to do together. This, ultimately, leads him to go through with his plans for assisted suicide.