"I Would Follow You to the Ends of the Earth."

"...I see people with problems that no one ought to have. Compared to that, you've got a great life ahead of you."

"And you know this because you let me look at some autopsy photos with you?"

"I know that any guy who's got someone like Shelby waiting for him has no right to be thinking of killing himself."

Ross tilted his head. "You love her?"

Eli nodded. "Yeah. I think so."

"If she moved to Burlington, would you move?"

"Uh-huh."

"How about if she moved to Seattle?"

Eli hesitated, and then felt something loosen in his chest. "You know, I would."

"How about if she moved somewhere even harder to get to?"

"Like New Zealand? Yeah," Eli said. "When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around."

"Well, what if the place she moved to was even harder to get to than New Zealand? A place you couldn't get to by boat or by plane or even by f****** rocketship? What if she went somewhere and the only way you could follow was to put a bullet through your head or hang yourself from your closet rack or run your car in a closed garage?" I did it because I loved someone up one side and down the other like that," Ross said. "Not in spite of it."

Excerpt from Jodi Picoult's "Second Glance."