In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

“I love you. They can't take it away.”

“My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, so…”

“Do you ever think about him? About the boy who infected you?"Images flash in th…”

“I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the…”