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

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

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

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?