I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.