There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

He is coming, and I am here.

The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed anyone that way - to her, kissing had always been more theoretical than physical. Afterwards she stood with her eyes closed, lips parted, face tilted. Robert thought, She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.