“You are my one and only, for all eternity.”

“To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar”

“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow...”

“A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.”

“And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, Im goin with you.”

“..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.”

“Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. If youre implying that Im spoiled, I assure you that I am not.You should be. His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought her...”