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1 " What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. " A cage," [Éowyn] said. " To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. "
2 " The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. "
― Hilary Mantel , An Experiment in Love
3 " He stops pacing. 'I know, Miranda, I did it because I—' 'Stop! Don't say it. I don't want to hear you say it.' 'I have to say it,' Noah says. 'No, you don't.' If I hear him say the word love, I don't know what I'll do. I still have my gun. Maybe one day I can forgive him, but all chance of that goes out the window if he claims he did it for love. If you love someone, the idea is respect them enough to trust them. Not to take away their freedom. Their life. "
― Dan Krokos , False Memory (False Memory, #1)
4 " Dread that she would meet some other man and see in him all the joy of life that he lacked. “I will see you home.” The words came out all wrong, with gruff emphasis on the word will. One look at her, and he lost all chance at serenity. Because he had never in his life cared whether anyone liked him. He’d never thought about it. Until her. "
― Carolyn Jewel , In the Duke's Arms
