Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.