The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

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

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.