His eyes made her think of water at night – full of mysteries and hints, revealing little.

When you’re raw you don’t want people studying your reactions, even if you’ve convinced yourself you’re just fine. Maybe especially then.

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn’t sure.

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, ‘These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.

Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn’t automatically hide from the rain.

What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?

He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him.

Don’t call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.