"I yearned to run eagerly into the arms of the only man I had ever loved... but my rapturous world toppled when I learned my young and beautiful sister, Beth, loved and wanted him, too..."

"You can tell yourself that all you're doing is seeing the world... or you can tell yourself that all you're doing is living cozily in a small town... but in both cases you can be hiding!"

"Mine was a whirlwind romance with Ray Gordon... It began with the suddenness of a summer squall and ended just as quick, because a secret tore us apart... A secret out of his past clouded the present"

"What could I say?... Jud was only doing to me--what I had done before to someone else... and now, it was my turn to beg..."