“Ask her to wait a moment — I am almost done.”

“Well, I guess I can wait two weeks then."
"for what?"
"to ask her out”

“I am myself, though from moment to moment something else seems to be looking on. Whatever will be required of me, however, can best be done if I remember who I am.”

“I almost had to wait.”

“He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

“I am waiting for something to go wrong
I am waiting for familiar resolve”

“I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.”

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

“Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.”

“… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”