I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after