Sometimes she felt that her heart would ssurely break. But she knew that hearts did not literally break because their owners were unhappy - and foolish. How dreadfully foolish she had been. Yet she cl...
Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the same way.
One does tend to assume that life must be far easier for others than it ever is for oneself, he said. I suspect it rarely is. I daresay life was not meant to be easy.
Once in, when did one fall out of love? It had taken several weeks back in October - though it seemed the feeling had merely lain dormant instead of going away altogether. How long would it take this...
Miss Fry had been borne off, as planned, Hugo reported, to be outfitted from head to toe for her wedding and her new life. His wife had gone with her, and so had the Countess of Kilbourne, her sister-...
May intelligent, bookish ladies sometimes be reformed? he asked her.She thought about it.I suppose it may be within the bounds of possibility, she said, even if not of probability.
It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this is w...
Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.
His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he had long ago realized that he must treat his blindness as a challenge rather than as a ha...
He was a man who seemed careless of his appearance, very different from the gentlemen with whom she had consorted until a few months ago. She would not have afforded him a second glance if she had pas...
He did not immediately answer. Their eyes locked and neither looked away. Camille swallowed as he pushed away from the counter and came toward her. He set one hand on the table beside hers and the oth...
Había ciertos momentos en los que la vida daba un giro que cambiaba por completo el curso establecido. Y era característico que dichos momentos sucedieran sin previo aviso, dejando al interesado sin t...
Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.
Everyone had run to do her bidding. Soon only the three men--the three useless ones--had been left in the sitting room to fight terror and nausea and fits of the vapors.The door opened. Three pale, te...
En ocasiones necesitamos tiempo para adquirir sabiduría y reparar los errores del pasado
But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.
But hell need not be eternal unless one chooses to make it so.
And a strong man, she said. Strong enough to be vulnerable, to take risks, to be honest even when honesty might expose him to ridicule or rejection. And someone who would put himself at the center of...
A funny thing, love. It was not always, or even mostly, a sexual thing.