I love what's left after love has been tested.

“I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more d…”

“Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.”

“That time I thought I was in loveand calmly said sowas not much different from …”

“He held her like a new womanand what she feltfelt almost as good as love had,an…”