“Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.”

“Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.”

“When I said "I love you" I meant forever. If I said "I hate you" I meant never.”

“Make them do as you want them to," she said."I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.”

“You are an abomination before God.Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.”

“I love you," I say.I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.”