If she hadn’t paid the price of her heart, perhaps this gift would never have been hers.
I want you to look at me and see no other than the man you love. I want you to feel a start of pure joy when you awaken in the morning and find me beside you. I want you to wish you could rush the sun...
I read sixty books last year. Geez, he said. Why? ’Cause there wasn’t time to read more,
Because it would be worse than never having them in the first place. I just enjoy the time I’m given with the animals.
As a volunteer for the Military History Center, he visited Arlington whenever he was in town, recovering items that had been left on headstones. With his fellow volunteers, he helped catalog the items...
Your smile is my sunshine.
We can move past our history, but we can never truly erase it.
Watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel
Walking again. But being inconspicuous on
Quit arguing, he said. It’s a done deal. He sat down and shoved first one foot, then the other, into his cowboy boots—the ridiculously expensive ones she had given him last Christmas. She’d never regr...
Life was beautiful, that love and adventure were possible even when times were hard or frightening.
Life had taught him long ago that fear and happiness could not coexist.
Her questions shooting at him like a barrage of machine-gun fire. He thought he did okay, because he was prepared. He had spent weeks reading and researching and studying, all the while waiting for th...
Her home; it just happened to be where she lived. This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived...
Great guy. Wait till you get to know him. I didn’t wait, Sophie thought. I fell right into bed with him. It would never work. I still don’t want kids, Daphne said. I never will. I’m the oldest of five...
Equaled her brilliant sister in the classroom. She used to pretend it didn’t matter during the years she and Abigail attended Miss Madinsky’s school together. Alongside the pampered daughters of judge...
A broken heart doesn’t care how the love got lost.
You can either kill me. Or marry me, he said. His suggestion slammed into her with the force of a blow. She reeled back. No! He bent and began fishing nails out of the bucket. No to what? To both choi...
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! —Jane Austen (1798)
We all have our own unique gifts. It is incumbent upon the larger society to discover them.