She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.
Deanna RaybournThose are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.
Deanna RaybournBut this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
Deanna Raybourn