“I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.”

“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”

“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”

“LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.”

“It's been a long time, you see. There's been no one for five years. Not since Gavin. I've spent five years murdering what I felt for him, starving my need for him, purging my memory. But somehow it still feels...too soon. They say time heals, but--' 'They lied,' he said simply.”

“I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life.”