Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.

I hadn't ever thought that a man could love me in the same way that my friends love me; that I could love a man with the same commitment and care with which I love them. Maybe all this time I had been in a great marriage without even realising.

You’re too hard on yourself,’she said. ‘You can do long-term love. You’ve done it better than anyone I know.’‘How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.’‘I’m talking about you and me, ’she said

You have to take your chance, it’s not like you fall in love with someone every week. How arrogant are you, that you think you’re going to feel like this again about someone whenever you decide you’re ready, on your terms?