You know your mother is my first and only love.
Yet art wasn't his only love, and never has been.
It was not fair to want to be the only love she would ever have.
It was the only love he had known that whole first winter.
Am I your only love - in the whole world - now?
For a long time the weapon had been my only love.
What is the point, she figures, to have all that without him - her first and only love?
She had lost her only love, but he had kept the sea.
"How can I look at another lass when you're my only love?"
The only love a ballerina can afford is her art.