What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

Perhaps... you love too fiercely.

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are.