Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.