La certitude d'avoir empêche de désirer.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

[Ensuring a long marriage means your wife is] someone who is always mildly sedated so she can never realise there are better men out there.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.

And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

[about how he and his wife can't go out on a date, since they're married]

She cannot move you, because you already are what you are, with or without her.

A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

I couldn't have her. I wasn't going to let anybody else have her.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy.
The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.

If, as I say, I did not love my betrothed, at any rate, I had never loved any other woman.