“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without.”

“Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that he was, ever have overlooked her roots.”

“I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you”

“Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.”

“and I wonder does everyone else live this way a succession of tests a triumphant success each time I'm still intact at the end of the day”

“I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.”

“My striving couldn't get me any closer to knowing God. He had always been there, waiting for me to give up and listen.”