“This is the army! Nobody can do the best they can.”

“Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students.”

“He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk--why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.”

“What can I do?” he asked. “To start taking care of you?”

“Can you fight?"Jestine nods in my direction. "I can take Cas on pretty easily.""Is that supposed to impress me?”

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”

“Eventually reality will catch up with you, Dia. You can run and you can distract yourself, but you can't fight it off forever.”