“Look, this isn't about the ring or when I ever made a hamburger, which, for your information, was my senior year of college.""Right, when you almost caught our kitchen on fire.""And you dated one o...”

“You make every case for marriage but love.”

“In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?”

“Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.”

“Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either.""Then you're doing it wrong.”

“Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.”

“If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.”

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

“Our higher duty is to fear God.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”