Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. Th...
She made a purring sound in her throat and pressed into his palm,
I don’t usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again.
Listen.
That’s either powerfully romantic
Inferior people often despise those who are different, Adam said calmly. It’s the only way they can feel superior.
Here's a lesson for you, Clare. Frivolity is usually far more profitable than necessity.
Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop?
As the next car in the line pulled up, he sent a last yearning glance after Kate, wanting to imprint that laughing image on his mind forever. Girls like her were not for guys like him, who parked cars...
Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan.
Once we begin our journey, it would be appropriate if you show a groveling desire to please your employer. Juliet raised her eyebrows loftily. I was planning on being the sort of servant who is errati...
If I have an ambition, it’s to leave the world a little better than I found it.
I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear.
I see why they call you Lady Alys, he said with a mocking humor. Managing an estate, several businesses, and children as well. You are an extraordinary woman. Most women are extraordinary. It compensa...
I don’t know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved … well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.
I believe as I did as a child, that life has meaning, direction and value; that no suffering is lost; that each drop of blood and every tear counts; and that the secret of the world is to be found in...
Are you still afraid of me? He touched her fallen hair with a butterfly's delicacy. She might not have noticed that touch, except that she noticed everything he did. She closed her eyes for a moment,...
But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!
Listen to the wind. Hear the stones, taste the moonlight. Feel the spirit of the trees and flowers and creatures that share the night with us. They were the same words that her mother had used when te...