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...
After you have broken my heart and left me, I will remember that we are always and ever connected.
Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing," he said, "It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would...
This has been a birthday best forgotten.Most birthdays are, milord, his man said agreeably
Siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados
Pleased
Following spring to find himself a
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.
That would seem to imply that women crave brutality and abuse, she said. It does not show a great respect for either women themselves or their minds.
That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to . Other people seemed to gain their sense of identity and worth from
She could remember him at church, sitting with his family in the second pew, behind her and her mother. She had worn her hair in long braids as a child, and she had liked to toss the braids over the b...
Nem sempre podemos esconder-nos da vida. (…) É melhor nem sequer tentar e encarar simplesmente o que precisa de ser encarado.
Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
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.
Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.
It is the human condition. No one escapes, even those who may appear to others to live charmed lives. But we all have the choice of whether to be defined by the negatives in our lives or to make of ou...
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...
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...