The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

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

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

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