“No. Wait. I . . . wait."Damen stopped, and turned. Laurent'sgaze was edged with indecipherableemotion, and his jaw was setat a new angle. The silence stretched outfor such a long time that the words, whenthey came, were a shock.”
“My last words to him were to assure him that we would bring Sally to join him later. And you know what your dad said? He said that he would wait for as long as it took."Grace bit her lip. "But she never came, did she? And he never stopped waiting.”
“I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.”
“There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”
“I tell you Charlie, I was there waiting in that field. waiting for Ede and Tom to find me. You don't think two people come together for nothing, do you? They were together because I was waiting to be found..." Then she looked straight into my face and said to me: "You know it, too, Charlie. All that time you waited for me to find you. What if I hadn't? What if I'd said: I won't?" She turned, and clinging to my arm, she surveyed the fields of snow the stretched away to the confining wall.”
“And I came home Like a stone And I fell heavy into your arms These days of darkness which we've known Will blow away with this new sun And I'll kneel down wait for now And I'll kneel down know my ground And I will wait I will wait for you And I will wait I will wait for you ”