Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words have.

“I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my…”

“Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other…”

“That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…”

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to…”