One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.”
“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”