“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”

“Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.”

“If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?”

“Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties”