For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.