I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price