“In marriage, until you can truly trust your life partner completely, you will always be filled with suspicion, jealousy and doubt. You will not truly feel the meaning of happiness in married life.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”

“Are you truly living life or just paying bills until you die?”

“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”

“Success, in life, is most easily measured by the number of days you are truly happy.”

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost….”

“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

“The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.”

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

“The world of adolescence was all I was interested in exploring, I suppose because there is no other period in your life when you feel as intensely. Love, hate, jealousy, loyalty: I remember the power of these emotions as a teenager and how navigating questions of identity at the same time was truly terrifying and exhilarating. Writing in that moment of a person’s life has always felt so right to me.”