Tasha Alexander

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.