A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.