“I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”

“He wondered if his own child would like tohave a dog, then shook off the thought. He was yearsaway from having a child. He needed a wife first—andobtaining her would be far more trouble than obtaininga mistress. Here, he had yet to get a mistress.”

“Leanne," he said. "I would never forget you. I'd forget who I am before I'd forget you.”

“If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.”