They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.