You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.