Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.