"Yeah, see, don't think you mean that. And even if you meant that, you are talkin' out of your ass. You got no idea what love feels like. What it can do for you." Bobby shrugged his shoulders, glancing down at that book again. "I ain't gonna start singing love songs for you. I ain't sayin' it's a good thing. Hell no. Love's the most pain you can do to yourself. Highest high. Lowest low."

Bobby crossed his arms on the table, looking right at Aleister. "Been decades and I still hear her. Still relivin' the last talk we had. Rememberin' what I said to her. That pain, darlin'. You can't even imagine."

It was in his eyes and his voice now, if nothing else. "When you really love, that never stops."