“Are you happiest and saddest right now that you’ve ever been?”
“Of course I am.”
“Why?”
“Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I know everyone who was forced to read this for school hates this book with the passion of a thousand suns, but rereading at 56 was a revelation. Fitzgerald crafts beautiful prose, and this line is just lovely.