“I had been on a whole lot of folks' prayer lists and God had known for years my address was still 111 Unlucky-in-LOve-Avenue.”

“I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?”

“I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.”

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”

“It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.”

“Life hands us lessons, and my lesson was to face this awful situation and grow from it, Blossom. I thought love had been taken away from me, but it hadn't been. I was still the same person who had loved Mr. Feingold and my old aunts and my cousins and my friends. I still ahd love inside of me, and I still had it to give. ”