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.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

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

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

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