If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.