HarperCollins

“God made all things beautiful in his time; also he hath set eternity within man’s heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

His arms tighten around me and he says, “If you’re good at something, you like doing it, and you can make money at it, you should go for it.”

“So I should be a prostitute?” I argue, and he chuckles against my back.

“Don’t sell yourself short. You could be a high-­end escort.”

He went to boarding school in Northern Ireland from age seven to eighteen and then joined the Royal Marines, where he served for ten years.

Home is what you take away each time you leave the house.

I can be anything
any person
anywhere
if I just have my book and chair.

Side by side, top and below, each of us lives in our own separate time and space. And yet we all belong to the same building, our lives touching however briefly and faintly.

In a sunny bed of fragrant earth the garden makes love.

When time makes its long song the garden’s many-colored children are born beneath a fragile shelter of leaves.

shiver ran down

She’d feel more confident applying her theoretical knowledge once she had some experience with the fundamentals.