Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.

Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.