“Don't stay because you want to. Stay because I want you to.”
“Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.”
“Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!”
“Sometimes you want to stay with someone, not only because it's magic and it's promising and it feels like home; but sometimes you find someone and you want to stay with him (or her)—because you're the same kind of animal.”
“Because, Ava, it's in my past where I want it to stay. I don't want anything affecting my future.”
“...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...”