There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

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

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.