“Oh, Irrylath,Irrylath, we squaundered our two years together.”
“Aeriel gazed at Irrylath: husband to her, but only in name. She dared touch him only when he slept.”
“Oh, the fun we two have together.”
“Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.”
“Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.”
“The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.”