“Caleb is a pretty nice guy."..."Why would he marry a girl like you?”
“Why would he marry a girl like you?”
“Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.”
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”
“Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.”