“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

“We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security”

“Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.”

“I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.”

“Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)”

“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.”

“To kiss then was the most natural thing in the world. To explore, to taste, to find out. Katie did find out. When they parted from each other, the world was that much more of a beautiful thing.”