“They say everyone needs something to love.”

“It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her.”

“It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.”

“It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires.”

“But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .”

“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.”

“But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.”