Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.

You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.