“At least you pay for them.”“I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue.”“I didn’t expect you to populate your own orphanage,” she said.”

“I didn’t expect to see you, Mr. Fitzgerald,” she said, meekly.A grin slunk across his face. “No, I imagine you were expecting to get to castrate Connor.”

“If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?”

“I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.”

“...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.”

“I wasn't sure what would happen with us. I knew that there were no guarantees. Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them, on sunny Saturday mornings, and the consequences just had to be lived with, every day. But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.”