What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.