Hold your pen and spare your voice.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.