I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

“We all look. The lucky find.”

“Then maybe you'll help me convince Mr. MacGregor that I should paint his house.…”

“Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd…”

“I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved yo…”