“This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.”

“Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.”

“He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn't unusual...”

“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”

“There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life.”

“And really, a formal ceremony and a piecce of paper wasn't what made a marriage. It was the feeling bursting apart my chest-the overwhelming sensation that I'd been cleaved in two at birth, and, miraculously, I'd managed to find my other half. And even more miraculously, he felt the same.”