“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“Colin : Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.Sugar Beth : Well, that sure does leave me out.Colin : Exactly. With agreeable women, Im unendingly considerat...”

“[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.”

“Hed lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and shed been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.”

“Now, now. Southern ladies dont French-kiss and tell.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”