“I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.”

“I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”