The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.