They knew only how to see what was wrong in their lives and in the world and never what was right. And that was precisely what she was doing now when thinking of them, Gwen realized with a mental shak...
We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity
We often do not say what is in our hearts, he said, to those who are closest and most dear to us.
Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the beloved. And wept for the woman he had taken to wife with such high ideals—the woman who had...
You have love all wrong, Gwendoline. It is not all give, give, give. It is taking as well. It is allowing the other one the pleasure and joy of giving. Let me love you.
You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet.
Still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn, he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. And their merging sometime...
Awfully? she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. I am full of awe, he explained.
Besides, how could one apologize for kissing a woman twice? Once might be explained away as an impulsive accident. Twice suggested definite intent or a serious lack of control. His
Did people... really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete she...
Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?
Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.
Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.
He gazed at her without answering, and his fingers drummed a light tattoo on the table. I need my sketch pad, he said. You should do that more often, Camille.Do what? She could feel her cheeks grow wa...
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words reall...
How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.
It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.
It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.
Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.
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