There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.