She Seemed Fragile Like A Moonflower –

As For Religious Faith, A Lack Of It Shouldn't Stop Us From Doing Good Deeds For Their Own Sake.

Hope Is Such A Tenuous Quality. To Feel It And Then To Be Denied What One Most Longs For ... Better, Surely, Not To Hope At All, Than To Open The Heart To A Hope That Is Impossible.

Water And Stone Flesh And Bone Night And Morn Rose And Thorn Tree And Wind Heart And Mind

She Seemed Fragile Like A Moonflower – Destined To Bloom For A Single Lovely Night, And Then To Fade And Fall.

I Know It's Hard For You To Trust Me. If I Ever Find The Man Who Did This To You, Who Made You So Frightened, I'll Kill Him With My Bare Hands. But You Can Trust Me.