“She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?”

“She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.”

“It was all very well being in love with the memory of a woman, but loving a woman without her memories was simply torture.”

“Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.”

“What exactly did having needs mean, while he was on the subject? That Delaney needed to have sex? that she craved an orgasm? And if that were the case, why couldn't she just take care of the matter on her won in the privacy of her home without putting him through all this torture? Anything was preferable to the thought of her being with Jake.”

“Marriage was nothing but a primitive form of torture”