I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.