“Annie, no stranger to disappointment, felt the hope break down inside her body and disperse without any lingering effects.”
“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.”
“Livia now saw clearly what she needed to do. She would break up with Chris this weekend. She sighed with satisfaction and the lingering effects of Blake’s kiss, now tattooed on her heart.”
“Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.”
“If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.”
“Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.”