There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.

If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.