“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”

“We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem”

“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them”

“For what man is there who does not prize that gift most rare and beautiful, that one perfect thing which no gold can buy – a woman's unfeigned love?”

“Relationship Principle 3
He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.”

“For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.”