Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.