I apologize.” “you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.” - Alice Borchardt

She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place”