“Jenny: You didn't leave?Gareth: Of course I left. I was hungry, and I couldn't find anything to eat. I bought a loaf and some cheese. And oranges. Wait. You mean you thought I had left. Without say...”

“Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long.Gareth: No. Lord Blakely could not. Not unless he had someone he could trust to run his estates in his absence. And Lord Bla...”

“You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.”

“He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as ...”

“Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.”

“I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my s...”

“His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.”

“Ill be your friend in daylight. Ill treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, Ill not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.”

“Maybe thats what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.”

“This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.”