Do it from the heart or not at all.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.