“I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.”

“I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.”

“I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.”

“the drama below and the drama above could easily collide at any moment”

“The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...”

“The kernel of truth sank into the fertile soil of [her] imagination, possibilities for a happy resolution suggesting themselves in vague flashes of potential and promise...”