In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.