Pero había ciertos momentos a lo largo de la vida que definían a una persona para siempre... al menos ante sus propios ojos.
Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere—somewhere—there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us,...
One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?, she said, I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and mar...
No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers.
If there was magic alive in this world, Julian thought after the first couple of minutes, it was surely present in the waltz danced with someone one loved more than life itself.
I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.
I suppose, he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, you want marriage again. No, she said quickly. No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the property o...
I believe contempt says more about the person giving it than the one receiving. It demeans what ought to be righteous punishment.
I Know what you meant when you told me she was full of love and brimming over with it. And so innocent that one fears for her. Perhaps we ought not to fear for such people but for ourselves whose expe...
He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T
He knew he was alive when he was with her, whatever the devil that meant.Whatever the devil it did mean, it made all the difference.And he was not even sure what that meant.
Eunice Goddard, he said, all pretense of sleepiness gone from his eyes, will you marry me? I have no flowery speech prepared and would feel remarkably idiotic delivering it even if I had. Will you jus...
But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.
But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.
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Ennui.
You have become as necessary to me as the air I breathe, he said. Your beauty and your smiles wrap themselves about me and warm me to the heart—to the very soul. You have taught me to trust and to lov...
Where was Bewcastle?But then he was there, standing on the terrace some distance away, and such was the power of his presence that everyone seemed to sense it an fell back away from Alleyne even as th...
We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again.
Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.