He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.
But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by huma...
But he was not Matthew. He was everything that Matthew was not. He was safety and comfort and warmth. He was home. He was everything in the world that was hope and sunshine. He took a step toward her...
But Ashley had always understood. He had always known there was a person behind the silence - not just a person who listened with her eyes and would have responded in similar words if she could have,...
Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which i...
But most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.
Having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this an...
What it was like to feel all alone in the world and had been willing to share with a near stranger what must have seemed like her shame at the time. Of course, Lady Overfield continued when Wren said...
Park came into view—the double arched stone bridge over the fast-flowing river;
El matrimonio es un viaje, como la vida misma. No puedo esperar que sea perfecto desde el principio.
When you believe in yourself, Anna, when you are in command of yourself, when nothing derogatory anyone says of you or to you has the power to arouse your anger or any desire to retaliate, people seem...
One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one’s life.
Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to...
If you want something, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, you will never get it. Want is a timid, abject word. It implies that you know you will be left wanting, that you know you do not des...
I am in awe, he said. Where do all these ideas come from? I think from a lifetime of only being able to observe and never being able to do, she said. I have twenty years of inaction to make up for.
Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is atheart.
Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.
But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix o...
And yet he had taken her to that inn wanting to soothe himself with feminine compassion and warmth. Her very silence and self-possession had inflamed him, angered him. He had wanted her to reach out t...
Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species