You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

She leaned toward me, offering her neck, and I kissed her just behind her ear.

Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.