Love? What's that? Preferring someone to someone else? If that's love, then yes, she loved you. Of course, if that's love...then I love you. At least for tonight.

I don’t want to saw I flew into her arms. I wasn’t in condition for flying. Or running. Or even dignified limping. I simply fell. Fell towards the center of gravity in my own personal universe. And if our lips met on my way down, was that any fault of mine?

Anne held out her arms. I don't want to say I flew into them. I wasn't in condition for flying. Or running. Or even dignified limping. Fell towards the center of gravity in my own personal universe. And if our lips met on the way down, was that any fault of mine?

Pain could be controlled. Its debts could be deferred. But there were other debts that could not be deferred. Debts of honor. Debts of love.