“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”

“I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.”

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

“But I don't want your throne.""Then what do you want?""You.”