I don’t think that’s the answer he was looking for. It’s not the answer I was looking for. But maybe it’s the right one. - M. K. Hobson

“I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.”
“You always have,” Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.

She was painfully aware that doing one’s best was never assurance that it wasn’t the wrong choice anyway.

“I wasn’t sure if we were still engaged.”
“After everything we’ve been through? After true love conquered all?” Emily shook her head. “Being dead had done nothing to alleviate your obtuseness, Mr. Stanton.”
“Being dead allowed me to learn the heart’s deepest secret,” he said. “That sometimes love—even true love—isn’t enough.”
”But it’s a start,” Emily said.