“You’ll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.”

“You’re mine,Isabeau. You’ll always be mine. Make no mistake about it. Whether you choose to forgive me and giveus a second chance, or you don’t, you’ll be my only.”

“The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.”

“And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”

“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”

“Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.”