I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

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

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.

I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

I, for one, have no interest at all in having my heart stolen.