I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.