With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man." "That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.

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

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.