After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

The most important things in a romantic relationship are compromise, honesty, openness, humility and trust. If you don't have these with someone, you don't have anything.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

A sure sign of healthy relationship is, you don’t read about the signs of healthy relationships.