I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.