“If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all...”

“Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.”

“Not every day hurts. Not every breath hurts. Maybe that's all we can really ask for.”

“I didn't need to transform after all.My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.And maybe that's not so bad after all.”

“Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,Glimmered the white moonshine.[...]Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.”

“Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up.It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making him think that maybe she hadn't minded his devotion, after all.”