“She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.”

“...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.”

“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”

“She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.”

“Daniel hadn't given in once across the five thousand years she'd witnessed. No matter that they killed her again and again and denied him his one true love, he would not give in and choose a side. And even if he did somehow lose his resolve,she would be there to support him: She knew now that she was strong enough to carry Daniel if he faltered. Just as he'd carried her.”

“This time she didn't bother correcting him. Just this once, she'd like to believe that he's right.”