I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.

To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

I would do anything to stay beside you forever.