I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.

I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.

I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.

I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. “Was that an invitation, Ms.Lane?” “If it was?” I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? “I don’t do hypotheticals. Little girl.