So please try to keep in mind that, when I plague you, I do so because you’re the only person I can plague.

For the thousandth time, Adele Collier, don’t open the closet door or you’ll get crushed!

It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful before, but it just tastes sour after.

Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there’s a payment of time or money or soul!

She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

It’s all in the past, and nothing can ever change it. We have only the present to work with, the future to hope for. No use lingering on the past.

Adele, if you think that, no matter how mad you drive me, that I want to give you up, you are insane, possibly more insane than is healthy.

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.