If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.