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“Never apologize to women. It only confirms that you were wrong, and incenses them further.”
“No, he keeps the schedule of a cat. Long hours of slumber interrupted by brief periods of self-grooming.”
“But I hope to love them someday. Sometimes one must love something before it becomes lovable.”
“It isn’t the job that drives them mad,” West said. “It’s the mercury solution they use to smooth the felt. After repeated exposure, it addles the brain. Hence the term ‘mad as a hatter.’ ”
But the cleverest people sometimes caused the worst trouble for themselves.
“The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior,” Devon said dryly.
“I know many scientific facts about the human heart—not the least of which is that it’s far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.”
“Desire,” he said, “is always better motivation than fear. Remember that, Quincy.”
“There’s only one way for me to prove that I will love you and be faithful to you for the rest of my life. And that’s by loving you and being faithful to you for the rest of my life. Even if you don’t want me. Even if you choose not to be with me. I’m giving you all the time I have left. I vow to you that from this moment on, I will never touch another woman, or give my heart to anyone but you. If I have to wait sixty years, not a minute will have been wasted—because I’ll have spent all of them loving you.”
