「You're a non-completer. → Oh, am I? → Are you a completer? → Up to a point. Can one complete anything up to a point? I don't think so.」

「Whatever you're going through, someone's been through it before you, put it into words.」

「Just because there's no blood, don't think it's not a murder. He's murdering a marriage. Marriages don't bleed, but it's still murder. → Marriages break down. It happens all the time. Nobody wants it to happen but it does, and we have to live with it.」

「After all, suppose it was a cancer and you were in unbearable pain and dying only too slowly, Then I'd say end it now wouldn't I? Out of my love for you. So if your life hurts you so much that you want to end it, I won't stop you. out of my love for you, only just tell me. Don't let it be a surprise. Give me time to say goodbye. I can't ask you to live for me. But we each have to carry our own burden. You're like the explorer. You're further down the road. You've gone on ahead. So if after a while you don't go on anymore, then I'll know that the road is too hard and for too long. I'll know that in the end, the unhappiness wins. But if you do go on and bear it, terrible as it is, then I'll know that however bad it gets, I can last it out because you did before me.」

「Sudden Light By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,—

How long ago I may not know:

But just when at that swallow's soar

Your neck turn'd so,

Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?

And shall not thus time's eddying flight

Still with our lives our love restore

In death's despite,

And day and night yield one delight once more?」

「Say not the struggle nought availeth. The labor and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not nor faileth. And as things have been, they remain. For while, the tired waves vainly breaking seem here no painful inch gain far back through creeks and inlets making come silent flooding in the main. And not by eastern windows only when daylight comes, comes in the light. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly. But westward look, the land is bright.」

「I began by thinking I could save you, but in the end, all I can do is honor you. My mother, first among women, my warmth and my comfort, my safety, my pride, you're the one I want to please. You're the one I want to applaud me. My father, first among men, my teacher and myjudge. The man I know I will become. You grow older now. You'll still ahead of me as you'll always be. Forever further down the road. Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer, so I shall suffer. As you endure, so I shall endure. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time then let me go.」