You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

You get through it, you just never get over it

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.