“Romances serve but to feed the imagination of the young; they add nothing to the sum of truth.”

“…when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.”

“Hope follows on the heels of Faith. And the white-winged goddess—which is Hope—did not leave her, but prompted her to many little surreptitious acts of preparation in the event of the miracle coming to pass.”

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”