I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter.

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.