“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never see...”

“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”

“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”

“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just ...”

“It is strange how easy it is to remember pain.”

“Sometimes... I feel like I can't picture him anymore. Like I'm forgetting him... I forget the way he looked when he smiled. The sound of his voice. The way his hand felt wrapped around mine. And it...”

“He laid his head on Reid's shoulder and shut his eyes, buoyed toward sleep by the affectionate comb of fingers through his hair. He could stay just so, and be content for all his days.”

“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.”

“Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.”