...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.

You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do?" I don't know." Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.

It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

You are, and always have been, my dream.