Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.