You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.