all along

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
Jalalu’ddin Rumi

fortification

“…I never see beauty without thinking of you or scent happiness without thinking of you. You have fulfilled all my ambition, realized all my hopes, made all my dreams come true. You have set a crown of roses on my youth and fortified me against the disaster of our days.”
Duff Cooper

beautiful friendship

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps… perhaps… love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
L. M. Montgomery

clouds

“Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.”
Annie Sullivan

true love

“When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other, when they have seen that they are matched, are in sympathy and compatible, in a word, that they are alike, there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven. This union is love, true love, such as in truth very few men can conceive of, that love which is a religion, which defies the loved one, whose life comes from devotion and passion, and for which the greatest sacrifices are the sweetest delights.” Victor Hugo

The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma

One of my purposes in watching all the old Perry Mason videos has been to find the only case I remember seeing many years ago. I remember it because of the very poignant final scene. I found it this week! It originally aired November 14th, 1959

Paul’s gun is used in a murder after Paul is knocked unconscious on a job. There are several suspects, each with a compelling motive for the murder, but things get complicated when a wealthy patriarch uses his money and influence to manipulate the evidence so as to cast suspicious away from his own children. Perry defends Paul, and eventually the truth comes out. In the final scene, Perry is summoned to the mansion of the millionaire, who is so delighted that none of his children was the murderer, that he hands Perry a generous check.

“There you are, sir, a very small token, I grant you.”
“Is this what you wanted to see me about?”
“Of course it is, and I’m sending an even bigger one to Paul Drake. Do you realize how foolish I feel after all my efforts to steer the course of events?”
“You very nearly steered them into causing a great injustice; Marsden might have confessed earlier if he hadn’t seen that you were helping to cover everything up.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I thought it was necessary.”
“That’s the tragedy, Mr. Dameron.”
“What is?”
“You know when I leave here, I’m meeting Paul Drake at a restaurant. He’ll pick up the check for dinner; that’ll be the fee for my services. He’s just a friend, but I never once doubted his innocence.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Mr. Dameron, I’ve never before met a person so far removed from humanity that he believed every one of his own children capable of committing murder.”

Perry picks up the check, tears it in pieces, and tosses it on the desk as he walks out.

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