What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.