I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

What is this place?’‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!

From personal adversity comes great art

She wasn’t sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.

Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.Reason didn’t stand a chance.

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

Seeing him again had been a gut punch.

You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Move forward with purpose