“Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of her body.”

“And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.”

“and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.”

“If someone like you, someone as unbelievably beautiful as you, as crazy and sweet as you, filled with attitude and courage with her heart in the right place, in a lot of right places even though her head normally isn’t… if someone like you shares her bed with me, then that says something about me.”

“Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.”

“and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children”