“One of them is married and another is engaged and the third cannot make up her mind.”

“...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....”

“Again.Apparently, three broken engagements weren't enough. It was her duty to marry, and marry she must.”

“In her life, she'd been nourished and sustained by certain things, him being one of them, Trudy another, and Edgar, the third and most important, but it was really the three of them together, intersecting in her, for each of them powered her heart in a different way.”

“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.”

“Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people?Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.”