Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

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

And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

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

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