Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson