... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?