I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

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.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.

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

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

Why do I want to run from happiness?