“nothing yet. I've been waiting.""for what?"she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.”

“now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.”

“Her body sighed, taking him in as if she'd been waiting for this herwhole life.Perhaps she had.”

“It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.”

“If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different”

“Then she was alone- with only a wolf for companionship- waiting to tell the next girl what a folly it was to love him, to trust him.”