“This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.”

“How is it you’ve never married?” A soft splash. “It’s an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.”

“I want to have you in every way known to man, and theninvent a dozen more.”

“Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.”

“Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.”

“Normally, she never paid calls, not on her own. But this was life after Leo - a series of tiny, halting steps toward independence.”

“I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed right. 'Love is composed of a single soul, inhabiting two bodies.'" He took her by the shoulders drawing her close. "It rang true for me, in a way nothing else did. Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.”