Poor Lily, all she wants is to drink a warm butterbeer out of the rain with a sweet guy. And all James wanted was to not be betrowthed...

She'd already paid the cost, and she wasn't sure if that included him, too.

one little doubt took the whole world down. Can it be rebuilt? can a person learn to trust again? to love again?

They explain about a time when your world slows down, but they never care to inform you that the world stops only so you can catch your breath - hoping to breathe again just once more.

It was her job, her way of life now to hunt the crazed murderers. She knew the dangers, the secrets that lurked just below the surface waiting for that Freudian slip to expose them. And her. But now the peril was real. Someone had slipped.

I learned that being human means encapsulating the realms of human emotions. That love really does exist and it's not some fairy tale enhanced fiction. It's almost a tangible object that just remains out of your reach until you finally give up on it. Wher

They'd never leave me be about how wrong he was for me. I told him this and he'd look me in the eyes and tell me that I shouldn't plague my beautiful soul with worries about people who didn't bother to return my love.

Not only had 'once upon a time' lingered in the realm of submissive nonexistence, so had other positive connotations in his life.

A moment like a poem, you wish you could hold it, I shut my eyes like it's frozen, it's gone when I open, It slipped past the clouds right there where it lingered, and a girl could slip through your fingers...

I used to have my heart on my sleeve for all of them to muck up, but now he's taken a hold of it and he keeps it safe in his hands. The way he hugs me from behind and I relax into his security...

Where were the horrific happenings that took place in everyday fiction? The giant, evil trolls bashing my innocent carriage procession. Evil sorcerers wielding their wands and casting abominable spells on my poor, lonely soul....

Aww, sod it already, Lil. We know you're fallin'."

A totally different twist on the relationship of Lily and James .