Ennis: If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it.
Jack: For how long?
Ennis: For as long as you can ride it. There's no reins on this one.
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)

"Mother," I explained, "had only one great love. It didn't work out. There were incompatibilities. Family. Geography. The same old story. I think she decided early on that if she couldn't have the man she wanted, she would do with no man at all."
- Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast (1996) by Bill Richardson

I will make no mistakes in the name of loneliness. I have my work and an uncomplicated life. I don't want to feel anything again... ever.
- Dr. Han Suyin in Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955)