No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Love meant different things to different people.

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.