As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

She never falls, but never gets out of falling. It's a state of permanent almost-fell.

You. Are. Not. Leaving. Me.

"She said, "Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or implication, not at any time whilst this remains to me!

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

He had never fled from a single foe, and had the thought occurred to him he would have flushed with shame.

I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.

Shes's always been very accepting and patient with my trust issues. I've always had a hard time getting close. But no matter how many times I doubted, she just kept saying: 'I'm not going anywhere.