For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.