“Life does not always gives us the choices that we want”

“I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.”

“He thinks that there's no reason to eat breakfast unless Eleanor is there to give him that silly wide grin of hers. He wants to have an argument with her just so he can kiss her into a good mood again. He wants to sleep with her every night, see her holding a baby with brandy-colored hair like hers... He wants her forever... He can't bear the idea that she might ever love another man.”

“I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.”

“They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough.In short, they were made for each other.”

“He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.”

“It was also bitterly true that a person who doesn’t want you is twice as desirable.”