.: Love Part II :.

It had been remarkable good fortune that had brought them together.
But it had taken more that luck and happy accidents or even love.
It had taken wisdom and courage to put their lives back together, and to have a sheer grit it took to reach out and hold on tight.
It would have been so much easier to never try, to never touch at all, to run away and hide, while protecting old wounds.
Instead, they had dared, they had danced, they had trudged on through the dark and the cold, defied the demons, faced the terrors, and refused to run away.

- 'Safe Harbour', Danielle Steel

an enjoyable end to a depressing start.