Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.