Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.