If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.