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

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

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

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.

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)