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.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

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