“He didn’t often talk about his father, not even with his family. He’d told himself that it was because it was so much under the bridge; Edmund had been dead for over ten years. But the truth was that some things simply hurt too much. And there were some wounds that didn’t heal, not even in ten years.”

“He didn’t often talk about his father, not even with his family. He’d told himself that it was because it was so much under the bridge; Edmund had been dead for over ten years. But the truth was that some things simply hurt too much. And there were some wounds that didn’t heal, not even in ten years.”

— Julia Quinn