And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn, » he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. « And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Mary Balogh