“I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.”
― Emily Giffin

“Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.” 
― Nancy Werlin

“I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

“When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.” 
― M. Scott Peck

“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.” 
― Timothy J. Keller