I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

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

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.

It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of a shared living space. We would have stayed together even without a marriage certificate . . . but I believed in the permanence it represented. It was a piece of paper you could build a life on.

I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.

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