"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. Then 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."