It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

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

You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could have been with each other. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!" She clamped her teeth on her trembling bottom lip to steady herself

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .