“But one thing she'd learned was that if a girl didn't ask, a girl wouldn't get.”

“I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I wouldn't have married you if I didn't want to". She took a deep breath. "And I don't think anyone. including my father, could have forced you to marry me. So, Mr. Megalos, consider yourself stuck with me.”

“If you find a woman who makes you whole, do what ever it takes to get her and hold on tight.”

“Just because a man's hormones are involved doesn't mean his heart is involved.”

“At some point you have to love in order to be lovable.”

“Word of advice - don't let your father choose your wife. Choose your own. You have to live with her. Your father doesn't.”

“I tried to go back and talk about what I did know. I told her about one girl he'd brought home from Cornell; I'd asked if she was his girlfriend, and he's said, "When you define something, you limit it.”