The headiest loves were the loves that couldnt be.

Dont go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

That is what I want to tell you about the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him at that very moment of existence at the heart of torrential downpour she was exquisitely real and she too seemed content to go on sitting there forever.