“When you come to live with a woman, you will soon cease to see anything of what made you love; though it is true that the two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy.”

“For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit.”

“Isn’t that why we commit to another? It’s not for sex. If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. We’d just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the more I think about it, the more I think long-term relationships are for getting to know someone.”

“It’s ridiculously easy to fall in love, even the animals can do that – what’s hard is to sustain that love for life, which most animals can’t do, but the humans can.”