“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'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.”

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

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

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

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

“Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.”