You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.