He who awaits much can expect little.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

There had never been a death so foretold.