Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

There aren't any answers, only choices

While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.