That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on the street with the rain coming down and mascara running onto her cheeks, all I could think was that I'd never seen anyone more beautiful.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

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

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.