If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.