“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”

“He leaned forward and said, "Tell me, friend. Is there more for us?"I looked down at my feet. "There's everything for us.”

“And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.”

“God never goes back; he always moves forward. ... God always wants our future to be bigger than our past, and God always moves forward.”

“Oh, yes, of course,” he said hastily. He gestured for Sophie to come closer. “Lance, this is Sophie. She helped me out when you and the others ran out on me, and she’s been travelling with me ever since. Sophie, this is Lord Lance the Lazy. You’ll never meet a person lazier than him. Watch as he asks you to come forward so he can kiss your hand.”“Don’t be ridiculous, Oliver, I wouldn’t ask her to come forward,” Lance scoffed. And then after a momentary pause, he added to Sophie, “Incidentally, if I do ask you to come forward, would you oblige?”

“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”