You are mine.” He spoke against her lips. “You always have been. You always will be.

I may not have been completely honest about that.””You? Less than truthful? I’m shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen...

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want