I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death