Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.