“A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.”
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
“I hoped that she knew the truth--that it wasn't her fault, or my fault, or even his fault. No matter how many times I wanted to believe it was. This was my life, and this is how it was ending.”
“a man cannot embrace a woman’s faults until he loves her. A woman embraces the faults and then falls in love.”
“Therefore I lie with her and she with me,And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.”
“There was a dumb misery about him that irritated her; there was a manly staying of his hand that made her heart beat faster. She felt her agitation rising, and she said to herself that she was angry in the way a woman is angry when she has been in the wrong.”