"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 . When 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 were no more reason for anything . "