He rolled his neck, as if to relieve the stress of his shoulders. "Your body is encased in a strong spell. It will not open up to me, " he said in frustration. "Who guards you?

... You make me feel as if I am a bird soaring in the sky. When you are not with me, I am bound to the ground." He touched her soft cheek. "I want you to marry me, Ruby. Will you?

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested.

It was quite apparent that he'd been bestowed all the charms of any handsomely clad rake. A demeanor to match, Ruby thought.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested

To be your companion.""Companion?" He said the word as if he were spitting a bad taste from his mouth. "I am a killer. A monster! Can you not see that?

The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.

There he was, her confidant—strong, solid, and unbending.

The dream came again—three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.

Cupid had struck his heart to the core but had forgotten to put even a mere scratch on his beloved's.

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.