He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

I love. I have loved. I will love.