“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”

“Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.”

“What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.”

“Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.”

“For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.”

“And although there were countless single dads who were raising daughters, no one could deny that there were milestones that a girl wanted a mother for.”

“But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.”