I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. “I suppose so,” I said, blushing again. “And, as you see, I’m doing it properly, on my knees.” “This would, however, be a partnership of equals you’re offering, I imagine?” “Undoubtedly.” (448-49)

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.