If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

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.