“If anyone were to find out I began.Patch kissed me, hard, but with an amused glint in his eye. If I get caught, itll mean the end of kissing you. Do you really think Id risk that? His face grew ser...”

“Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours."Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.”

“But strength doesnt always mean brute force. You dont have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesnt equal strength.”

“I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.”

“What was it with evildoers trying to hire my boyfriend as a mercenary?”

“Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name.”

“There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.”

“I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.”

“It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of...”