Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

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

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.