“Once a man admitted his feelings to a woman, it either drew them together or wedged them apart.”

“Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.”

“A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.”

“A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.”

“No one could work forward without falling if they continually looked at the path behind them.”

“I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will be, and that’s all that counts. It’ll be that way always. Even years from now, when you’re old and withered, I’ll see you with my heart, not my eyes. That’s just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections don’t exist. If you see them at all, you think they’re beautiful.”

“Sammantha: Tucker?Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him.”