“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”

“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”

“She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.”

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

“Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.”

“Life is much more of a compromise than I ever imagined.”

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

“I realized that I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. It's a trip more wonderful than I could have imagined.”

“They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.”