Someone to Watch over Me

“Well, not wearing a hat hardly fools anyone into thinking you’re short,” she pointed out.

circumspect life—thoug

The ability to be comfortable with love, to trust someone with her heart, had been stripped away from her, forcing her to build layers of self-protection that no one could reach through

She couldn’t lose herself in the written word when an array of problems seemed to hover over the bed like malevolent spirits.

When he wasn’t working or sleeping, he read. Anything to keep himself from thinking about the past