“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

“She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.”

“She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.”

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.”

“Imagine if [Juliet] woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But [Romeo] had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.”

“At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.”