Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.