Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop." "What?" "What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple." "Raisa, this is getting us nowhere." "Say it!

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only

One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.