It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will al­ways be things you can't protect her from. Things be­yond your control. You finally realize there is something worse than dying . . . and that is having something hap­pen to her. You have to live with that fear always. But you have to take the bad part, if you want the good part." Kev looked at him bleakly. "What's the good part?" A smile touched Cam's lips. "All the rest of it is the good part," he said, and went.

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