he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

People in hell want snowcones.

Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick