" What happend to her? To Miranda?'

Ulysses shrugged. 'What happens to most children. She got sick, and never got better.'

'And your wife?'

'The same.'

'But you said you were married,' said Will, glancing down at Ulysses's ring, smooth and lustrous in the half-light.

'I'll always be married. But it'll be the next world when I see her again. "

― Cameron Stracher , The Water Wars