“Antoine knew what it was like to flee, to shed a life as though it were a cloak. He had learned to pack light. The less he had, the less he had to leave behind.”

“I just didn't think you actually had to die to live forever.”

“Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After”

“That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences.”

“I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't... don't want to be the one left behind.”

“Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay.”

“But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.”