“But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.”

“Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.”

“This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.”

“Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.”

“I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,” Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you’ve got a meatless pie, and what’s the point of that?”“Why, Freddy,” Minerva said, “that was almost profound.”

“You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.”