He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.