I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.

Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.