No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose.

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.