My true destiny clear for the first time in this journey, I quietly pleaded, "It has to be this way. Don't you see? This world would be much too dark a place without you in it.

I would pay any price for you.

Verranica, I will never leave you.

He gave me a look that was almost pitying, and when he smiled it was the smile of a vengeful god. "My dear Veronica, I am suprised you have not already learned -- everyone has a capacity for cruelty. Not everyone gets the chance to exercise it.

You should be true to the person you were.  Dont try to apply the person you are now to the past.

Happiness is about a moment.  The moment.  Its not a switch that gets thrown and nothing bad ever happens to you again.