There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.