“I want to be with you forever and beyond...”

“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at o...”

“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”

“Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager.Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights.""Oh." His polite tone had returned."I wish I could enjoy it. This...”

“Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the...”

“In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.”

“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with ...”

“The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.”

“When you are brave enough to see me and accept me at my most basic, uninspired, unremarkable self indeed, embrace my ordinariness - then, and only then, will you develop eyes to see the extraordin...”

“Time waits for no man" but no man dares not wait for "his Time.""Love is patient" but Time is not, yet it takes Time to find Love.Love they say, is blind. Because it "covers a multitude of sins?"To...”

“You can never have too many books or too many hugs.”

“There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972”

“If kissing was a language I was sure wed know it well. If it could measure the amount of love you felt for someone, our love was infinite after all. Even when we hugged I felt a special connection ...”