One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.