Settling For Second Best Quotes

“If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“I would have to commit to this- commit as much of me as there was left, every one of the broken pieces. It was the only way to be fair to him. Would I? Could I?
Would it be wrong to try to make Jacob happy? Even if the love I felt for him was no more than a weak echo of what I was capable of, even if my heart was far away, wandering and grieving after my fickle Romeo, would it be so very wrong?”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many faults, faults she was aware of before she married him, she knew he wouldn't hurt her.
She knew because there was no passion, and the only time she had felt passion, it had come with a price.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.”
― Catherine Sanderson, Petite Anglaise

“Man's Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality.”
― Stewart Stafford