“It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind — but it had hurt his heart.”

“When he turned to face her,the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony.As if Luce had just ripped his heart out.”

“When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out”

“His eyes sparkled again, and in that instant I felt a strong urge to get up and leave him behind. I had been wrong to think what Sean and I had was special. He wasn’t ‘the one’. He couldn’t be. ‘The one’ would never leave me behind.”

“Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.”

“His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if it had been carefully chosen and presented in a way that only a man born and raised in the heart of the South could–distinguished and from a different time.”