“That odd alchemy of married love - passion, betrayal, fury, kindness, and companionship - lay there exposed between them.”

“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship”

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

“All the intrigues of the Gods & Goddesses were the works of Eros, of course. And as the Gods & Goddesses relaxed & lay limp, after the union of love, Love himself wished that he could relax & lay limp too. But he could not, since he was at odds with himself. He tried to figure out what went wrong & concluded that it all went wrong at the beginning, with the Big Bang.It was those aspects of himself, Eros[Love], Anteros[Mutual Love] & Pothos[Longing], which first united the Sky & the Earth in the primordial egg in the union of love. But it was Himeros who uncoupled them as Passion was fickle & capricious. And Chaos, naturally, followed Passion.”

“This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion,and it wasn’t wicked.It was love, and it was divine.”

“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”