These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.