“Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.”

“Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.”

“...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.”

“...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.”

“We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.”

“Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.”

“The words I Love You kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textu...”

“his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.”