She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.