Because we need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet. I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything — the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... All of it. All the time, every day. You're saying, "Your life will not go unnoticed, because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed, because I will be your witness."
— I forgot to tell you.
— Go ahead.
— You can't imagine how much I feel like making love to you. Βut I'll never tell anyone, especially not you. They'd have to torture me to make me say it.
— Say what?
— That I want to make love to you. Not just once. Over and over again! Βut I'll never tell you that. I'd have to be crazy to tell you I'd even make love to you now... right here, for the rest of my life.
— What else have you seen?
— I've seen a lot. I mean, not like that. Not... I mean... For instance, I've seen that you're maybe one of, I don't know, three people in the world that likes pizza-flavoured chips. You're also the only person I've ever seen that spends more time on the roof of her house than in her actual house. And what are you doing? You're reading. Books. You know, not US Weekly, or Seventeen or, you know... But you're reading substantial books. You also do this... You do this thing where, it's like an OCD thing, but it's not. It's... Whenever you're leaving your room, you grab the doorknob, and you turn, you're getting ready to leave, but you don't, you stop, and you back up, and you turn to the mirror, and you stare at yourself. But it's not like a, you know, "I'm so hot," type of stare. You know, it's more like, "Who am I, really?" And to ask yourself that,
I mean, that's... That's so cool. Also, you look out the window all the time, like I do, only you're looking at the world, you know. Trying to figure it out. Trying to understand the world. Trying to figure out why it's not in order, like your books. I'm only looking at you.
— That's either the creepiest or the sweetest thing I've ever heard.
— You traded your ship for me?
— Aye.
— Wow. You look amazing.
— Even in cookie pants?
— Especially in cookie pants.