“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”

“More than anything else, I miss the hope. In jail, we we had the hope that we might get out, go to college, have fun, go to the movies. I am twenty-seven. I don't know what it means to love. I don't want to be secret and hidden forever. I want to know, to know who this Nassrin is.You'd call it the ordeal of freedom, I guess.”

“I don't know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever...”

“Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever...I hope.”

“I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.”

“Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be.”