“She was stronger alone…”

“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”

“Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.”

“Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.”

“The magnetic pull only got stronger. She wanted to be held. She wanted him to hold her.”

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”

“It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.”

“Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she’s spent a lifetime doing it.”

“she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun”