Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.