No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.