“He lived a wounded life”

“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.”

“And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.”

“there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives”

“It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.”

“As Katie wound her way among the tables, a breeze from the Atlantic rippled through her hair.”

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”