“Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.”

“I would never betray Venda.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”

“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.”

“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”

“Waiting for the sun to shine
And you know sometimes it gets so painful
Just like talking to yourself
When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine.”

“Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?"
All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.”

“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”

“Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.”

“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”

“Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went”