— Love is something that doesn't really exist. It's something that makes mercy disappear. It's like building a house and burning everything all around it. Love is listening at the door to hear if those are her shoes squeaking on the stairs. Love is when you whisper baby to a woman forty years old, when you watch her eating even though you can't swallow a thing... and when you can't fall asleep until you touch her. Love is when you're standing under a tree together and you wish it would fall over so you'd have to protect her.
— And when somebody wants to hurt her, you shield her with your body?
— No, then it's just a job.
— I want you to do it again. To lay on me and to be inside me. I want to feel what a woman feels when making love with her man.
— I'm not your man.
— A woman knows who her man is.
— You're not a woman.
— But you'll make a woman out of me.
— These drawings are staying here.
— If I ever take them away I won't come back to you... but that won't happen because I believe in relationships — that last a lifetime.
— Whose lifetime?
— Even elephants love each other for years... and scientists have proven that whales...
— Do I look like a whale?