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

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

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

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