He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.