The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!