No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture

Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

She liked the way he smelled - kind of free and open, like driving with the windows down at night.

I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Will you stay with me ” she asked. Her voice was the thinnest whisper almost canceled out by a low groan of thunder.... Forever ” he whispered back. The sweet sound of his voice filled her up.

Fear is the only way to greet the devil.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.