“It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.”

“Time would not change what I was feeling--or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.”

“After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.”

“A shift, a change of feeling, will bring with certainty a change in your future. This is the very first step in changing your destiny.”

“There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.”

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.”