“It's just that this outfit is much easier to deal with than that chastity contraption you had on the last time we were kissing.”

“But what? But it was just so much easier to deal with the old pain by ignoring it? Forgetting it? Andy's presence meant having to actively work at forgiving him, and that was hard. Forgetting was much easier than forgiving--forgiving was an on-going process that had to continue past the dramatic declarations of apology and absolution.”

“It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”

“Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.”

“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”