I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it. - Lisa Kleypas

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.