But he did love her, with all his heart he loved her. All his heart? All of it he knew about.

You'd think she'd learn something from that. But she still does the same thing. Making decisions that deform other people's lives, without consulting them, wit…

You aren't very good at determining what other people want and need from you... No one is. We're all as likely to hurt as help.

[She] was not one to bend to anyone else's will.

Ooh, baby let's get down tonight Baby I'm hot just like an oven I need some lovin' And baby, I can't hold it much longer It's getting stronger and stronger And…

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeli…