If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.