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.

Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

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.

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.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?