“What part of Vivis servimus non mortuis do you not understand?” she asked. “All of it?”

“Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.”

“She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said.No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.”

“A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.”

“Connor: [about Sidda and Connor's wedding] Vivi, it's taken years to nail down a date. She's always said, "What's the rush, when things are so good?" I don't know what the hell she's so afraid of - it's like she's always waiting for the bottom to drop out. Vivi: You know why she thinks that, don't ya, honey? Because it did. It always did.”

“I must ask what it is you want of me?""What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing," she said, understanding all he had not uttered. "But that I don't want; that's secondary. I want love, and there is none. So then all is over.”