Sometimes, love was not enough.

Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.

Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

I feel able to comfort myself emotionally, and this keeps my heart open.

Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon