He loved me, she said, her voice leaden. It is so easy to take love for granted when one has always had it. I knew he loved me as I loved him, but I did not realize perhaps how much until all love was...
He looked windblown and out of breath and ... virile. What a horrid, shocking word. Where had that thought come from?
Dreams are wishes that will in all probability never come true. (Sophie)
By God, he thought, she was a fascinating person. She was going to take some knowing, some understanding. For the first time in a long while he began to doubt his artistic abilities. How would he ever...
Bruce lamented the fact that she had not arrived sooner, when they had really needed her. I came as soon as I had your letter, she said. And I think I was able to do something to cheer the children. I...
And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But th...
Algunos días eran tan tranquilos que al cabo de una semana era imposible recordar lo que había sucedido en su transcurso. Otros estaban tan llenos de acontecimientos que era imposiblecreer que veintic...
Ah, these double meanings, she said. Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was.
Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises, he said. Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise...
When one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.
Move a little faster than we originally planned, it is true, but we could rise to the challenge. We have been very successful during our first year. Rebecca, he said, turning to face her, I must tell...
Yet now he felt that perhaps he had missed one of the few chances life offered to step off the wheel of routine and familiarity and duty to discover if there was joy somewhere beyond its turning.
We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.
Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersti...
This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.
There is a terrible pain,' she said softly, 'about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is be...
The only thing you can neither plan nor control, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, is love itself. When you find it, you must yield to it. But only if it is the one and only true passion of...
That is the excitement of life, he said when he was finished. The not knowing. It is often best not to know.