But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

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

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

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