The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.