The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough
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  2. Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

  3. Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into...

  4. He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.

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