“... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

“No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.”

“I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in order to be happy. Does that frighten you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if you're the easiest woman in the world to—" He checked himself suddenly.”

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

“I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.”

“I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.”