The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

by Beth Brower

We have tea for that.

Is it immoral to marry a man solely to gain a library? And if that man happens to be tremendously good looking, is it more or less of a sin? Later Mercenary marriages happen all the time.

I wasn’t prepared for the haunting familiarity. For the road to remember me.

Bless a man who knows how to keep his own counsel when you can’t bear to speak.

It was then I thought that life—my life, in particular—wasn’t wholly worth giving up on yet.

Looking for quiet does not follow I was looking for solitude.”