Mercy

Do you think of me when youleast expect it – when you’reunwrapping a garden hose or

tilting your face to the showeror making love to someone else?And can you leave it at that or

do you find yourselfcompulsively sitting through the

memories?

Women use twice as many words in the course of a day as men, and she wondered if this because

women were garrulous by nature, orbecause it took twice as long tomake men understand what was

being said

Two like jigsawpieces, after allwould not fit.

…traveling was all very well and good as long as you knew there wasa place or a person you could call

home.

If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and theyto you, whether either personlikes it or not – squatter’srights of the heart.

--James Hilton,

Time and time again.

The first person you fell in lovewith stole your heart. Thefirst person you made lovewith stole your soul. And if

these were one and the same, you were damned.

… she’d wantsomeone to tap Godon the shoulder and wake Him up

She wondered ifforgiving was any

easier thanforgetting…

After all, if hate can steal oursanity, so can love. Love can rob

a person of his power of reason.We’ve heard it all before:

Love is blind,

Love conquers all.

Think of the strength we attributeto love in our clichés. Is thereany doubt that we’re vulnerable

to it?

Even if you takeyourself away from theperson who holds youfast, if that person

still thinks you are his, you always will be