One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.