In short, Esch describes her love for Manny in a strange way, as "certainty" and "as deep as a tree's roots." This reveals that Esch's character is both passionate and loyal.
It is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.
These words from Esch are the best evidence in regards to her intense love for Manny. She uses a particular literary device in her description of this passionate love: the simile. A simile is a comparison using the words "like" or "as." In this case, Esch's love is compared to "a tree's roots" running deep within the ground. This kind of love can't be uprooted, even by "hurricane wind." The description reveals how strong Esch's love for Manny truly is. Esch's love is not temporary. It is certain.
Esch also reveals something about love when she talks about her mother "mashing" words together. Esch "mashes" words together, too.
‘Belove’ when Manny was curling pleasure from me with his fingers in mid-swim in the pit.
Note that the words "be" and "love" are combined in this quotation. This is another bit of evidence of Esch's passionate love for Manny. The irony is that Manny is always desiring sex, but Esch believes love to be much more than sex. She often laments that Manny "never kisses her the way she has seen him kiss another girl." Esch desires this kind of passionate kiss from Manny very much. Thus, even though Esch has had sex with other men, Manny is the only man who Esch truly loves.
He is not the first boy she has been with, but he is the only one she has truly wanted.
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