“There's only one sun," Alison said with feeling. "It's always the same, but it's always the best. Do you know what I mean?”

“You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me the same response, even if there's a greater one that you grant another man. No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.”

“There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.”

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

“There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.”

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”