"Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same."
- Roy L. Pickering Jr.
"And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute."
"Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?"
"Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master."
"Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence."
"On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and reflect on what might have been. He would look upon the woman who occupied the opposite half of his b..."
"It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late."
"Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives"
"His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors."
"...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full ..."