Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.