Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

I come here with no expectations only to profess now that I am at liberty to do so that my heart is and always will be yours.

Every time I think Im missing a piece of me you give it back.

Jessica. For gods sake he said. Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what womens lib teaches you chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary chivalry is an admission of womens superiority. An acknowledgment of your power over us. This is the only form of servitude a Vladescu ever practices and I perform it gladly for you. You in turn are obligated to accept graciously.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly not one

Remembering. Forgetting. Im not sure which is worse.

When youre in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you from her or from the meeting of your sparks.

One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to beloved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay I if I would cannotcleanse you from it. But I would not if I could. I have neverloved any woman before my life has been too busy my thoughtstoo much absorbed with other things. Now I love and will love.But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.

So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you in my mind. You are still there just but you are there like a ghost a will o the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim and now it is not there at all.Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own I have given my heart to another.The boy The one in the inn With the unicornYes.You should have let me take it back then for my sisters and me. We could have been young again well into the next age of the world. Your boy will break it or waste it or lose it. They all do.Nonetheless he has my heart. I hope your sisters will not be too hard on you when you return to them without it.