“...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...”

“...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...”

“...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...”

“..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...”

“...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...”

“...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...”

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”