...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.
...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.
Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.