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

It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me. -Liberty Jones