" Mostly, though, we talked to one another, talked in the way that is specific to courtship, speaking at first, as lovers do, through a mask to a mask--long hours of talk that over time, weeks, months, slowly, atom by atom, transformed the mask of the other into an actual face and made one's own mask as invisible to the wearer as to the viewer. It was how one lost track of the masks and how one came to know oneself anew. I thought: So this is what it's like, being in love! I get it. You become a new person! A person unknown. "

― Russell Banks , The Darling