“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp the...”

“There in the highlands, clear weather held for much of the time. The air lacked its usual haze, and the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, each paler than the last until the fi...”

“I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don...”

“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, though it had not been such for the people who had lived there. Soldiers had fo...”

“ she claimed its a sign of Gods mercy that He wont let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we cant bear and wont let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they ...”

“He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging ove...”

“He said, I've been coming for you on a hard road. I'm never letting you go. Never.”

“Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.”

“Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.”

“My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.”