"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless
night. Very dark, but there were stars -- points of
light and reason."
"...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor.
Suddenly everything was on fire; there was
brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone,
when the meteor had fallen over the horizon,
everything went black. Nothing had changed, but
my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the
stars anymore. And there was no more reason for
anything."