- [first lines]
- Edgar: It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea / That a maiden there lived whom you may know / By the name of Annabel Lee
- Alex: [seeing the photograph] Who's he?
- Anne: A friend.
- Alex: What's he like?
- Anne: He's dead.
- Alex: I'm sorry. Do you miss him?
- Anne: Yes. What about you? Do you have someone?
- Alex: I did. A long time ago.
- Anne: You said that once before, "a long time ago". Makes you sound like an old man. What happened?
- Alex: Like you, I lost her. But I think about her all the time.
- Anne: I want to be forgotten completely when I die. I want all trace of my existence to be completely wiped out. Just one of my romantic ideas.
- Alex: There are some things that cannot be destroyed.
- Anne: Are you talking about love?
- Alex: Pain.
- Anne: That passes. A year or two of grieving and you're over it. This is what matters - here, now.