“How will you feel if I’m forever leaving? If one day I give myself to you and the next I take myself away—with no promises to return?” “Katsa, a man would be a fool to try to keep you in a cage.” “But that doesn’t tell me how you’ll feel, always to be subject to my whim.” “It isn’t your whim. It’s the need of your heart. You forget that I’m in a unique position to understand you, Katsa. Whenever you pull away from me I’ll know it’s not for lack of love. Or if it is, I’ll know that, too; and I’ll know it’s right for you to go.”
