Life's for living, not for mourning ... Live in the present, not the past. - Susan Howatch

Friendship's best, I said, and friendship's forever because no baby can come along to spoil it.

Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship.

Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied, it anaesthesises them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives [...] If romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied then surely nostalgia is the opiate of the disillusioned, for those who see all their dreams come true and find themselves living in a nightmare.