“If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras."Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever.""Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.”

“Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.”

“Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.”

“Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.”

“I told you we were meant to be,'he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but I who I just didn't see, and now- Well, now I kiss him. And just for the record, it's totally worth the tardy slip I end up getting.”

“I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.”