Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.